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. 

Sunset No.43

4/16/12
I like to let the image speak for itself but the story is just too good to not tell. I arrived at a good time and started to set up, also my wife came with the baby and stroller and was walking around the lake while I painted. As I opened my setup and got ready to paint I realized I had no panel to paint on, nothing. At this point my wife was 10 minutes away and she had the keys to the car. So I left my setup open and started running towards the direction she was headed ten minutes prior. I caught up with her in just a few minutes, she was surprised and in disbelief as I was, we both didn't want to miss the sunset and it was dark. so we headed back to the car running as fast as we could pushing the baby stroller llong with us. almost back to the car we looked over at my setup about 100 or more feet away and saw a man standing near the my things, we thought it was strange and wondered who he was and what he wanted. So we got into the car and I quickly drove us all the way back to our home to get a panel to paint on. I left my wife and baby at home and headed back to do the sunset alone. Then it happened, I pulled up and parked, and noticed that a man in a white shirt was still standing in the same spot watching my things and he had a small light lit as well. I headed towards him going around the building. When I got to my things he had walked away and was about 50 feet away with his back turned. Who was he and why did he wait with my things and then leave right when I arrived? I believe in angels do you?