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| San Simeon Sunset 10x10 O/L |
Memories linger as we watched the sun set after a beautiful day.
Recently I
decided that I needed to paint a new "seascape" that hadn't been seen or commented upon by my
mentor, David Gallup. My favorite place to paint at the coast is Leo
Carrillo State Park, but the weather was lousy, Tyler was home and I had
a short deadline so I decided to look through my photo archives for
references. My recent plein air painting trip up the coast of
California with my friend, Sharon Weaver, provided me with lots and lots
of great photo references. My painting (above) was the result of taking in this beautiful scene in person and with the help of several references.
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We stayed in
Cambria, a place much touted by my friends, but where I'd never been.
They were right - it's gorgeous and well worth another visit. The
evening we arrived was rather cold and (worse) windy, so neither of us
felt like breaking out our paint boxes. But we walked and walked and I
took many photos. As the sun sunk into the Pacific, the golden rays
caught the tips of the waves and made the scene magical.
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| Edgar A. Payne (1883-1947) The Restless Sea |
After blocking in the initial shapes, I tried to bring all I remembered from Edgar Payne's and Guy Rose's rocks. I was doing okay, but felt that the backlit waves lacked something. I darkened the background, colored the white some more but still wasn't satisfied. Then I decided to add in a bit of radiant green mixed with lemon yellow as a kind of foil. Somehow I felt that that helped put the sparkle and magic into the backlit waves.
I was happy
and hopefully the viewer can feel a bit of the magic that made that
evening so special while looking at this little painting which I called:
1 comment:
Marian, it is beautiful and I like the sunlight coming through those waves. The Guy Rose painting is absolutely stunning. Your rocks are mesmerizing to me; I keep looking at all the unexpected color I see in them.
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