Sunset No.50

5/2/12
Today I got to paint with someone else besides myself, a foreign exchange student named Jessie from China (she recently won first place at her high school). Our sunset was cloudy and dark but still quite beautiful.

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Sunset No.49

4/30/12
Interesting how the pond scum is a lovely color of grey this time of year, and it serves as a painting device adding depth to the water. Even though the sun sets so far to the right now it still reflects off of the clouds and effects there color in interesting ways. 

Sunset No.48

4/27/12
The bugs were out with a fury, I'm sure I looked crazy as I swatted all sorts of creepy crawlers off of me while painting. I painted the sky with broken color strokes of pink and yellow not mixing very much on the pallet, a little bit of a different thing for me.

Sunset No.47

4/25/12
Missed the cool clouds but made the best of it.

Sunset No.46

4/23/12
I moved the composition down to the bottom and made my focus the sky. I ended up leaving bare toned canvas showing through on the bottom, an interesting color consisting of  transparent oxide red and brilliant pink. Now if only I could be perfect enough to capture the brilliant color of the sky as the sun sets so quickly.

Sunset No.45

4/20/12
Burnt out from painting all day on a larger sunset in the studio, I struggled to drag myself reluctantly to the days sunset. I had lots of paint on my pallet before I arrived so I was able to start right away. I really wanted to capture the green of the bushes near the middle right of the composition , so I put them in first and went from there. I added the grey parallel bands in the sky at the end as they emerged with the setting of the sun.

Sunset No.44

4/18/12
A stormy day with large grey clouds moving across the sky from left to right. I set up quickly and started painting without hesitation, my goal was to capture a little of the yellow that graced the top of the moving clouds.