Sunset No.88

Just a bit of a glow was present among the mostly blue grey atmosphere. The green bellow took on a more warm color than usual complementing the sky above in an interesting way.

Sunset No.87

It looked like a watercolor so I painted it like one. This time it looked like thin paint to me, although it could have been all of the Sargent watercolors I looked at earlier in the day.

Sunset No.86

The sky was such a flat un interesting subject that I turned my attention to the green shadowy landscape instead. A quick wash of color was applied to start followed by the landscape and trees. The sky was pleasantly finished with the wash that I started with, and all I needed to do to finish was nuance the edges of the landscapes trees scraping away with a pallet knife.

Sunset No.85

The large clouds seem a constant recently, the nice thing is they catch the light from the setting sun that has moved farther and farther to the right.

Sunset No.84

Another dark sunset with almost no hope for light. I waited as a mall crack in the sky looked like it might open, but as it got later the opening got smaller. I scrambled to capture what little light was left and tried to combine it with the always beautifully clouds surrounding.

Sunset No.83

I waited for the large cloud to float by but it was moving to slow so I painted it along with it's more grey small clouds that hovered above.

Sunset No.82

A streak of clouds graced the sky allowing the sun to warm it's edges.

Sunset No.81

A flock of birds kept entering my view and it seemed apropos to include them amongst the expression filled landscape that surrounded.

Sunset No.80

I realize that the inevitable mishap is going to occur from time to time since I am doing such a large number of paintings...Well, I forgot my brushes and it was to late to turn back so I made due with what I had, a plastic bag that I put over my hand and about a dozen business cards.

Sunset No.79

A large cloud hovered over the pond in the distance, making an interesting contrast to the blue sky and golden highlights coming in from the right. The large cloud moved and changed so fast the painting became statements of the begining and end all in one.

Sunset No.78

A beautiful overcast sunset. Greys once more created with a little help from my friend cobalt blue, I tend to favor its greys over those made with ultramarine.

Sunset No.77

Elizabeth, Luke and I showed up to paint the sunset when to our surprise most of the area was ropped off for the fourth of July fireworks display over the pond. The spot I paint at was not yet taken but the crowd of about 300 at that point was growing and by the time I was setup and painting I had quite an audience. with my back to the crowd I painted nervously and fast, only stopped once or twice by little kids and curious patriots.

Sunset No.76

The other day I found out that you can get the exact time of the sunset right on your phone with a weather app. So I tried it out, 8:45 was the calculated sunset time so I showed up early and setup to paint at the correct sunset time. Well, it turned out to be pretty dark at that time but I got through it before it was too unmanageable. Slight pinks and soft blues were nice but I turned my attention to the foreground instead. It's the first time I've included the giant oak to the right.