Sunset, Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on linen, 16 x 20.

Hello to my cousins Ted Mosher, Pigtail Dick, and Henry Mosher.

Sunset, Monday, 27 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

The two paintings were done, one immediately after the other tonight – Virginia, then Scotland.

Sunset, Sunday, 26 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Sunset, Saturday, 25 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

There were at least six different sunsets tonight.

This is three of them.

Sunset, Friday, 24 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.While I’m waiting for a friend to come by and pick up the fabulous foxhound Flint for an overnight, so I can paint the sunset I’ve just been watching, I wanted to let you know that I’ve added a little story for the sunset of April 9th. (Not that I don’t paint with Flint, I just don’t want Maria to arrive in the middle of a cloud.)

Tonight’s sunset: 77°F. Everyone in my family’s a weather fanatic, it can’t be helped.

Sunset, Thursday, 23 April 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on linen, 16 x 20.We’re experiencing “technical difficulties” – i.e., e.g., a dead camera battery – and hope to have the sunset up sometime tonight. 

I can tell you it’s mostly clear, largely blue (three different pigments of blue, plus sepia, and titanium-zinc white, if you’re taking notes), violet (rose madder and cobalt blue), magenta (rose madder and titanium white), and a haze made of white, Naples yellow, and cobalt blue. The mountains were very clear and dark (Prussian and cobalt blue), and the woods are in full Spring mode, which means they’ve got everything from bare umber to pale green, budding red oaks (azo orange), and blossoming redbuds, dogwoods, poplars, you name it – merging as Gamblin’s wonderful radiant violet, radiant yellow, and brown-pink. Plus sepia – always have to have sepia, it grounds everything.

Does that help?