Silent Moonrise 24 x 36 Oil
I have not posted in quite some time due to the events that I have been involved in but I will try to keep up and post more as the summer season is coming to a close. I still have to write about my workshop experience with Scott Christensen and my Plein Air Easton 2008 experience but before that I want to say something about a painting I had done before I went to these events and to touch on the process and source for this painting.
This painting had been brewing in my head for two years. !! I saw this scene in Easton Md , two years ago during the first Plein Air Easton event that I had been involved with. I was driving down to Oxford if I remember right, just after the welcome reception , before it actually got dark, and along the road I saw a row of pines and behind it was the moon , a color of pinkish orange that was only describable thru paints. After snapping a ton of photos and doing several studies, I finally did this 24 x 36 peice. I did this on gessoboard primed with Gamblin Oil Ground. I tried to paint the sky thinly so as to let some of the white ground add to the luminosity of the sky and put more texture thru scumbling layers of paint on the foreground . Below are two studies that I did , both 8 x 10 Oil on linen.
