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| Bliss (an ocean story), (24x30) acrylic on canvas |
As I continue my journey of painting skyscapes I think this is an important one to document. As with most of these skyscapes, I started off quite intuitively by adding colour, knowing only that it would be a sky.
As it turned out, it became quite a laborious adventure, with layer, upon layer of colours and textures until I reached a point where this stormy sky transformed into something quite joyous. And it seems very much in keeping with how I was feeling emotionally about my recent situation.
I had moved from a turbulent and uncertain time into a place where I could breathe again and know that everything would somehow be okay.
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| Prairie Weather (30x40) acrylic on canvas |
So it's interesting to me to see the changes in a very similiar composition if you compare 'Wetlands' (a few posts prior) with it's utterly stormy sky and dark moody marsh, to this one 'Prairie Weather'.
Both have huge skies and far reaching landscapes, but the lighter and brighter colours and the shape and direction of the clouds, lend to a more uplifting scene. You can tell the weather is changing...
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| Clouds Drift By... (30x40) acrylic on canvas |
And so we come to this lovely piece 'Clouds Drift By...' where clearly the storm is over, we are out of the marsh, and there is water within reach just over these hills.
By the time I painted this piece, I wasn't sure if I had another skyscape in me. My new situation had so transformed my life that I was pretty much at peace.
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| close up showing birds out over the water |
But there will always be another sky to paint. I love painting skies. They can be so wonderfully expressive and take you to places you never thought you'd go. As a painter I think it's interesting to stand back and examine a body of work in order to understand one's motivation.
Some people run, some people journal, some people paint!
I hope you've enjoyed these four articles about skyscape painting as much as I have. Thanks for listening.
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