02 May 2022

a leap of faith with a dollop of cloud

 

Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 27 April 2022, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm

Here are some recent things from the beach at Brunswick Heads that I like. I haven't been to crazy about recent work there which is why I haven't posted anything. 

It wasn't a 'great' evening, the clouds were uninspiring until after dark when I was able to capture these two things quite quickly. In fact, until the next day I had deemed them both a write-off despite being happy to have gotten out to work out there. It was only a few days later when I realized that they were pretty interesting. 

The top one, (done second to the one below) for instance, was nothing until I took a chance and swiped a gentle dollop of orange/red over the irregular line of blue violet clouds. It was an improvised dab of intuition and I am grateful for its appearance because it completes the image. My weakness in these things is that I can become overly cautious at a certain point towards the end of a picture. It was getting dark and I could barely make out the colors on the palette so it was a leap of faith, one which surprised me, and woke me up. 

  

Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 27 April 2022, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm

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