Monday, September 22, 2014

FORT HUNTER SUNSET By Cecelia Lyden


oil/stretched canvas
12x24
www.cecelialyden.com

Julie Riker and I went to Fort Hunter, on Friday, a beautiful, mild fall evening to paint a sunset. I have painted sunrises and sunsets before , but always from my photographs. This was my first attempt to paint the sun setting en pleine aire. Boy, what pressure! "Now you see it. Now you Don't"
Dramatic sunrises and sunsets depend on cloud formations. This sky had only one cloud. The sky and the water were serenely smooth and placid. I decided to create my own drama and added some livlier brushstrokes and tints.