The view of Massanutten Mountain with its iconic Signal Knob is as familiar to me as the back of my hand. Not far from here is a back road that leads to a reverse view of the same mountain, an image that is not nearly as familiar.
In this painting the peaks and hollows of the end of the Massanutten are shadowed and highlighted in the slanted sunlight of a clear summer evening.
I felt I was painting a completely different mountain.