The Kanchenjunga paintings

A good kick-start to my foray into oils (Though I had done a few before these) was a picture of Mount Kanchenjunga (or,officially, Kangchenjunga) in a book given to me by my grandmother. It seems to have a certain informal character to it, a play of peaks in the light (unlike Mt Everest, which looks formidable and severe.) It also has a nice three dimensional quality, with little crevices between five pyramids. Colours, of course are everywhere in the Himalayas with abandon, and reason enough for me to use whatever came to my mind. I had also just started to explore making controlled drips, and seem to have used them everywhere!