Sunrises in NH can display the most amazing colors. The peaches and sherbet-pink colors from the rising sun… they’re often astonishing. This is an 8″ x 10″ oil painting of the sunrise on February 3rd. For just a few minutes, the clouds seemed to come alive with color, like a daytime aurora borealis. When I…
Tag: Landscapes
After the Storm – 28 Jan 2011
Yesterday during the late afternoon, a snow storm brushed us. It didn’t leave much snow, but the clouds had looked ominous as they passed overhead. As the sky began to clear, revealing a very pale pink sunset, I grabbed an 8″ x 10″ canvas board and quickly captured the colors in oil paints. The photo…
Sunset – Sunrise Paintings
As an artist, this is interesting. I feel as if I’m finding my personal voice in terms of influences: Impressionism v. Tonalist & Luminist art. (Those links open in a new window and take you to Wikipedia.) For me, Impressionism includes apparently disconnected colors & textures (at least, up close) that create the visual and…
Spring 2010 – Revisited
Sometimes I look at an older painting and it’s lacking something. Oh, it’s often “nice enough,” but… well, that’s not enough for me unless it was just a quick sketch. My March 2010 painting, Spring is on the way, was like that. It just didn’t have the oomph that I wanted; that may be partly…
Orange Hills Revisited
This is an example of what happens when I look at one of my earlier sketches and all I feel is, “Well, it’s okay…” I started with the oil sketch from January 8th, the Orange Hills at Sunset painting. Frankly, I was going to put it into eBay at a low starting price, just to…
Another Flurry Variation … Sort Of
This is my 18″ x 24″ oil painting, Flurries Variation (13 Jan 2011). It’s sort of a landscape, but also an abstract. To be honest, it’s a bit of an enigma for me. Here’s the story: After I’d sketched-in the larger flurry painting – which turned out as a very high-key painting – I wanted…
Sunrise – Snowy Skies – 14 Jan 2011
This morning’s skies looked ominous at first, and the colors were there for just a couple of minutes. I was glad that I’d already set out my palette with the colors I was likely to need. This was a small, fast oil sketch on an 8″ x 10″ canvasboard. Many sunrises feature the brightest colors…
Sunrises – Two More – 13 Jan 2011
It was another sunrise with quickly-changing skies. I had to work very quickly to capture the colors on these two 8″ x 10″ canvasboards. The first one includes darker colors and higher contrast. (In real life, the reds aren’t that vivid, blue-ish, or light.) The sun was just coming up (in back of me) and…
Flurries at Dusk, Revisited – 13 Jan 2011
With some minor changes, the larger Flurries at Dusk painting is now completed. (See the nearly completed version plus backstory, here. Mostly, I added contrast in some areas, and softened the white areas in the sky.) It’s a higher key than I’d expected, but I’m pleased with the lyrical quality of the color. The completed…
Vivid Pink Sunrise – 11 Jan 2011
This is the second of two paintings of this morning’s sunrise. Within minutes of completing the early sunrise painting, shades of pink seemed to dominate the sky. Continuing the theme of “urgency” from my previous work, I deliberately chose a larger canvas. This painting is on an 11″ x 14″ stretched canvas. My thought was:…
Early Sunrise – 11 Jan 2011
This is the first of this morning’s two oil paintings capturing the sunrise. I was consciously working with more vivid colors to capture the true impression of the sunrise. Though I wanted to keep tweaking the painting to get it “just so,” I’m also very inspired by yesterday’s discussion with my daughter, Amber. As we…
Quick Tree Sketch – 9 Jan 2011
Some of my oil sketches are sort of doodles… quick artwork exploring themes. That’s a good description of this sketch of the woods near our home. The purpose of this was to see what would happen if I tried to convey sunset colors through the trees. It’s a whimsical piece giving me more to think…