After many months of packing and moving and unpacking... relocating to Bell County and getting settled in our new environment... I am finally painting again. This 18 x 24 oil is the first painting done completely in my new studio. I am very excited about the new studio and the work that will be coming out of it. I feel the very best is yet to come.
"Last Light" was inspired by several field sketches done near Whitehall, Texas, a couple of Springs ago. I had been so busy with commissions and then moving that I never was able to render worthy works from those wonderful Plein Air sessions before the Hi-Ho job and other projects gobbled up the years.
What I saw, and am still enraptured with, was the gorgeous warm glow that caught on the bluebonnets seconds before the sun goes down behind the horizon. For literally about a minute...the tops of the bluebonnets turn almost VIOLET. The bluebonnets in shadow go purple... and there is this rich fiery glow across the world... and you look at it in a stupor and wish it would stay still so you could capture the subtle scene. I find the camera just cannot do the scene justice... and maybe my efforts combined with my field sketch do.
I just had TWO MORE stents put in my heart... and am recovering... but I hope to be painting again real soon.
"Last Light" was inspired by several field sketches done near Whitehall, Texas, a couple of Springs ago. I had been so busy with commissions and then moving that I never was able to render worthy works from those wonderful Plein Air sessions before the Hi-Ho job and other projects gobbled up the years.
What I saw, and am still enraptured with, was the gorgeous warm glow that caught on the bluebonnets seconds before the sun goes down behind the horizon. For literally about a minute...the tops of the bluebonnets turn almost VIOLET. The bluebonnets in shadow go purple... and there is this rich fiery glow across the world... and you look at it in a stupor and wish it would stay still so you could capture the subtle scene. I find the camera just cannot do the scene justice... and maybe my efforts combined with my field sketch do.
I just had TWO MORE stents put in my heart... and am recovering... but I hope to be painting again real soon.
Beautiful new additions and so glad to find you painting again. Thanks so much for your help with my project.
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