Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 7 April 2025, oil on canvas board,
30 X 25 cm
Here are two studios from a few nights ago. It had been a vivid bloom but short-lived due to the waxing moon that threw everything out of kilter. It will be full in a night or two, then I can get back to paint. The weather is still wonky with rain but in April it's usually like that.
The study above, as one can imagine, was painted when the bloom was at its raging peak. The sea was blood-red but then turned purple as it habitually will do in the after-burn. Eventually it will go deep blue again before nightfall swallows it up all.
The study below is less sexy but is far more compelling for me. It wasn't less fun, just more interesting to me. After all the melodrama of a colourful bloom, A sky, on an evening that is influenced by the light of the moon, will usually fall back into a serene placid state, as if exhausted by its own histrionics.
It's a curious light and one that still holds a lot of subtle colour. Because I love Art Deco, I really go crazy for any opportunity when I can use pink to counter a broken black.
This isn't quite it, but hey, there's always tomorrow. As the warmth of this pink sky climbs high into space and fades, a deliciously pale Prussian Blue/Lemon yellow forms underneath taking its place. So I'm fascinated by these colours, and I'm determined to exploit them whenever I can. In the studio I have several large canvas's (150 X 150 cm) that I'm struggling with with since last year. I never seem to get them right.
Perhaps an image like this less exciting than the more colourful pictures but like a scientist in a lab with his microscope, I've discovered
a whole world of rich and delicate nuances to explore. All of it hidden in plain sight with such simplicity.
Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 7 April 2025, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm
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