Here is “Eclipse Day Climber.”
![Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber.jpg)
The textured paint gives the mountains a rocky feel. I created this effect with the use of cold wax medium. When mixed with oil paints, it gives the paint a stiff, whipped texture like frosting. I painted the mountains only with palette knives.
![Detail: Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber-detail3.jpg)
![Detail: Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber-detail2.jpg)
The textured mountains are contrasted against the flat, smooth sky, which glows golden.
The person’s trek to this vantage point was filled with challenge and peril, and worth every moment.
![Detail: Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber-detail1.jpg)
The lone climber is treated to a spectacular view of the solar eclipse during the moment of totality. The sun’s corona is a blinding sliver of white light around the flat circle that is the moon. The mountainous landscape spreads out below in a gradation of color from nearly black in the foreground, to brown, red, orange and finally gold at the horizon.
![Detail: Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber-detail4.jpg)
This painting is especially beautiful and inspiring because of its scale. At 30″ x 30″, it fills the whole room with its warm glow.
![Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Eclipse-Day-Climber-Product-3-800x800.jpg)
![Art Studio of Cedar Lee. On easel: Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber-in-studio.jpg)
The painting continues around the very deep edges of the canvas, including the contrasting textures of the sky and the mountains.
![Eclipse Day Climber. 30" x 30", Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Eclipse-Day-Climber-detail5.jpg)