Egg Tempera Painting of L'Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix Mountains

Here's the painting I finished early this week. It's a 24" x 7" egg tempera painting of l'Aiguille du Midi in the Chamonix mountains, France.


The Aiguille du Midi is the sharp pinnacle at the top of the glacier. Here you can see a close-up photo of it. A few years ago we took the cable car up to the peak in the summertime, and even though it was hot down in the valley, it was freezing up there!






The reference photo for the painting was taken a couple of years ago from the mountain range across the valley.





We were sitting out at the restaurant at Le Brevent having a fantastic chocolate cake.









Behind the l'Aiguille du Midi is Mt. Blanc, and as a result of our memorable cake we now happily, and shamelessly, refer to it as Mt. Gateau.