Although most of my time spent in the studio recently has been towards completing watercolors, I did manage to almost finish this oil. I say almost since I only really have the foreground to complete. Right now, it is blocked in but will need some reworking along with some slightly darker values added. I'm not totally pleased with the shape of the water either so will probably re-work that too. I kept the clouds in the upper part of the sky soft-edged to hopefully impart some movement. I see them as slowly drifting from right to left in the light evening breeze. Since I love scenes such as this and never tire of painting them, I planning a new series of evening landscapes similar to the one shown here. I'm hoping that I can impart a more local flavor (to me that is) as there are a number of wonderful scenes around where I live that I walk past most evenings. Right now, they are mostly watercolor studies in my sketch book but I'll do the series in oil. I have done a number of plein air oil studies too and all this along with the sketchbook studies will get heaped together as reference for the final paintings.
4 comments:
Jeremy, I think subtlety is the key if you're attempting a sunset scene and you've managed it here very successfully. I really like the choice of colours and those soft edges on the clouds.
Thanks for the comment Peter. I try to be careful with sunset scenes as they can easily look a bit like a chocolate box top if overdone. As you mentioned, subtlety is the key so I try to keep this in mind each time.
I occasionally look at your blog and somehow like this one in particular due to the colour combination and cloud movement. It seems to reflect exactly my current emotion.
Jane
Thanks Jane, I do try to get some of my feelings and emotion into my work so I'm glad you picked up on that too!
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