Left home around 6.30pm, and with the sun setting at 7, I thought there was enough time to paint just-after-sunset landscape. I walked 10-15 minutes and finally settled on a top of the hill, from where there was a lovely view of my village. I set up the easel, squeezed the paints, decided on the composition and realized that I didn't bring brushes. By this time the sun was gone and the light was perfect. I called my daughter (always bring cell phone on a painting trip!) and 10 minutes later she brought the brushes.
From there the light deteriorated quickly. I usually paint the sky first, but on this occasion I started with the ground because I was using dark colours. The hues were barely recognizable and I was mixing "blindly" - I remembered what each blob of paint was and more or less how much from each pile I needed to arrive at certain colour. For the sky - I mixed titanium white, cadmium red light, cadmium yellow light and cobalt blue, and added a bit of ultramarine blue and burnt sienna for the clouds. But I couldn't really evaluate the hues, I could only see that the sky was light, the clouds a bit darker and the ground just a silhouette.
The painting turned out quite good though.
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| Village After Sunset, oil on canvas, 9x12in |
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