Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 26 November 2024 oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm
Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 26 November 2024 oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm
The weather has been flunky these past few weeks and I haven't been out to paint at the beach as much as I would have liked. These are from last month, and they look Okay.
This evening I went out to see what the sky looked like. It was really amazing but I didn't paint, I jumped in the sea instead. I didn't believe in it, but by the time I was out in the waves I could see that it was going to be really lovely. It was too late to change course, and yet, sometimes it is a great thing to be in the sea and just watch the sky. It's different than when I'm set up to paint because I not watching, but looking which is more intense.
I could only describe the sky as broken at several altitudes so that at sunset the various levels of clouds and colours were different. The clouds themselves were then consequently all very different shapes as well. High cirrus strands, the last thin angel hairs were golden. the pudgy line of low cumulus clouds resembled those Brillo scouring balls used to clean pots and pans were deep violet. Above them was a creme-coloured green backdrop that stretched into the cirrus cloud above. Well,,,, because I don't generally believe in photographed skies it didn't occur to me to capture it.
Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 26 November 2024 oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm
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