Late Afternoon Light

Late Afternoon Light
Oil on wood panel, 6x4
sold

Today, I am capturing glorious color in the sky with my oils on a small wood panel.  I like to simply block in the color masses thickly with my brush to start.  I am just marking off lights and darks, and prominent colors - and I'm not blending at all during the block in process.  Once the painting reads like the sky before me, I then look at those edges.  I blend where the edges appear soft, and add thicker color where the edges should be hard - often times with my palette knife.  Near the end, I make sure the sky colors reflect on the ground below.  Painting number 897 in 897 days :)