Bluebonnets and Sunset

NanaBanana · #1 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 07:41 PM

Shot with DSC-T200 at 2008-03-01

This is one that I recently painted during an Art Demonstration/Workshop.

Shot with DSC-T200 at 2008-03-01

Bluebonnets

ttflyr · #2 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 07:51 PM

They are both very soothing pictures. This must be very relaxing as well as rewarding. Great job and excellent example of following your passion.
tt

beekeeper · #3 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 09:35 PM

I really like the movement of the horizon against the stillness of the trees. I love those colors. I like that the color is not muted and how the painting as a whole feels "cool" (as opposed to warm), which seems to me to be a kind of play on expectations (for a sunset). It gives your subject a freshness.

Thanks for sharing.

littlebu · #4 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 09:58 PM

Very "cool" feeling. I like that you actually have a light reference on the trees and that the shadows follow them. So many forget that. Very nice job.

NanaBanana · #5 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 12:04 AM

Thanks for the comments, everyone. ttflyr....for me - painting is definitely relaxing and rewarding, and I enjoy it so much. I'm not a great painter by any means, but I love to paint anything and everything. Several of my friends like to paint one favorite subject, such as flowers or western style or Tuscany etc. - I'm kinda weird though, because I like to paint all kinds of things (or try to anyway).

The sunset on the top is another one that I did in about two hours (in a workshop). Anyone who knows me knows that I don't normally paint that fast. One of the very first ones that I did - took me three months, but it was also a larger canvas, 24X36......

Thanks again for the comments.....