acrylic on canvas12x16
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This is my last seaside painting for a while. I did 9 of them, large and small. It's time I looked for other subject matter.
This is one of the many spectacular sunrises I photograhed this winter. I have never painted a sunrise or sunset, even though, living on the Hudson River, facing west, I saw beautiful sunsets almost every night. As breathtaking as they are, I always considered them gaudy. But I just had to paint at least one. I approached it like an abstract color field type of painting and just went for it. Using my photograph to keep the color as close as possible to the actual scene, I mixed my colors, wet the canvas and swept the paint across it, trying to mimic the movement I saw in the sky.
I noticed that the foreground in the above image appears darker than my painting. I did suggest some light hitting edges, but my camera and the transfer to the blog did not pick it up.
2 comments:
It's so difficult to capture the drama of a sunset -- you've really done it here. It's got the scope and vibrancy of the sky we've all seen but couldn't reproduce. As important as all the warm colors are, I really like those bits of pale blue. They somehow make it real for me.
I had this huge comment I tried to post the other day...but it disappeared into cyberspace.
This is stunning, Cecelia. You've caught the drama and the brilliance of a sunrise quite elegantly!
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