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Near Twilight Above Weymouthby ~litka

Traditional Art / Paintings / Landscapes & Scenery

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Most everything I paint these days is for the fun of painting or to try this or that. The results are hopefully nice, but secondary. For this piece I was playing around with two things: painting with a small brush and seeing what I could do with the sky. Cloudless skies can be pretty much airbrushed in -- smooth and featureless. Add clouds and you have features, but my constructed clouds tend to be way too solid: not things that change as you watch them. My solution is to imply clouds and movement with a rather busy sky of brushstrokes and a variety of colors. I painted over this sky several times, each time trying to tone down the brushstrokes and colors to get a rather calm and reasonable sky. I don't think the small bush made a difference one way or the other: I could easily have painted this with my more usual bigger brushes. This piece was hard to photograph, so the photograph is pretty funky...

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~Kashiwamizu Jul 24, 2010

It's really beautiful~ Is that how twilight supposed to be in the West? In the Tropics we never have a nice twilight like that~ Things just went dark in less than 30 minutes ><

~litka Jul 27, 2010

Twilight length depends on the time of year and how far north you are -- counting from the time the sun set until there is no light in the western sky, I'd say it might be a hour or so in the summer around here, 45˚North -- less in winter, and that's a guess from how long it takes the sun to rise after it begins to get light in the east in the morning, which is when I'm up and riding my bike. In the evening the mosquitoes pretty much keep me in the house...the little vampires...

In this painting the sun is still up but close to setting, the shadows in the foreground are from an unseen hill, so the sky is still daylit, with some yellow and orange in the haze and clouds coming from the low, setting sun.

~L-and-S Jul 24, 2010 Student Filmographer

Beautifully!

~litka Jul 27, 2010

Thanks.

~metranisome Jul 23, 2010

I really like the way you disperse the clouds on this painting! The pale greenish tone of the clouds remind me oddly of an Edvard Munch painting.
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They have a very mild emotional quality to them that I think adds to the painting nicely. The difference in texture is interesting as well, as the clouds really seem to have a soft brushed quality while your landscape is much more dense and heavy looking.

~litka Jul 27, 2010

Thank you. As I mentioned in the comments, I try to keep my clouds as vague as possible, but get to looking too solid if I try to be more specific -- and I did try to tone down the brush strokes in the sky to make it a little more realistic. As for colors, the picture on the computer screen is pretty iffy and the glowing screen does not help...

~Cheep18103 Jul 23, 2010

Great colors!

~litka Jul 27, 2010

Thanks. The real one's colors are a bit more subdued, and better.

~Cheep18103 Jul 27, 2010

How long you need to complete an image of this size?

~litka Jul 28, 2010

As I have mentioned before, when I have seen both the study and the "finished" painting, I have always preferred the looser and improvised study. As a result, I only paint the "study", so the image I end up with usually has taken me less than two hours to paint if I know what I want to do and can do it. However, if I don't know what I'm doing and/or things don't go well I may spend four to six hours or more scraping off paint to get something decent on a particular piece of hardboard.

I would not recommend this style to artists who hope to sell their work because buyers value hard work over genius. In fact, never ever make your job or anything you are being paid to do look easy no matter how accomplished you are at it -- you are being paid to work hard, not have fun...

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