Today was alla prima portrait class, but a variety of factors conspired to make my painting suck: I had a migraine, class was a little shorter than normal, and there was some awful loud music playing in the place...which wasn't helping the migraine any. Anyway, it sucked and is being wiped this evening.
Instead...here, for your viewing pleasure (:D), is a piece done last summer after observing one of our (actually rare) sunsets. We normally don't get much color here, but that late afternoon was really nice.
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9 comments:
What a beautiful work!!! We get beautiful sunset whenever it's not foggy. The fog shows up a lot in summer here.
Wow, what beautiful color! That area where the cerulean blue and the orange/ochre meet that neutral well...it just sings!
Sorry you had such a bad day. I use to suffer from migraines and there is nothing one can do when stuck with one! And loud music is the worst! Anyway, glad you posted this one. Love that blue!
Dreamy!
Migraines. Yuk. They can knock me out... I get that visual thing where I can't see - and then the headache.
This piece is really beautiful. The colors in your pastels are just so rich! Unbeatable!
Oh, this is gorgeous... I guess you grab it when you can and the color shimmers.
Well this one is a beautiful substitute for the sucky one. I hate it when that happens!
You can't wipe that, Jala. Just put it away for a while. It's really nice, you captured a lovely moment.
Akiko - Thank you. We almost never get fog, but I'm not sure why we rarely get colorful sunsets either.
Loriann - Thanks. I liked having that neutralized area there too, to help make everything else look that much more colorful. Nature obliged and taught me, by presenting those sort of dull-colored little clouds there.
Liz - Thanks. We really do have skies that blue most of the time. Gotta love that thin dry mountain atmosphere. How did you get cure your migraines?
R - Thanks!
Laurel - Thank you.
Karen - Thanks, I do too. I guess it's supposed to help us remember to appreciate the good ones more...perhaps.
Diane - No, this one wasn't the bad one! :O It was a portrait. This is my substitute posting.
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