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18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

This one's all about the sky. It began, however, with the idea of painting a larger version of something like "Fall in the Lane". I painted the foliage but by the time I was getting down to thinking about what I wanted to do for the lane or street or whatever, it wasn't working. So I decided to paint a Thames scene, and proceeded to do so from the bottom up, slowly covering trees to make a dark sky. Well, I played around with the sky, lightening it by and by, which meant that the foreground had to be more detailed or it wouldn't look right, and well then there was my special bug-a-boo; the middle distance. I had some in the form of the Hungerford bridge, and there was no sense of depth in the painting. I just don't do middle distance... So I covered it up with this simple foreground who's only purpose is to support the sky and went back to work on my sky, which was what interested me anyways. I spent two days trying out different skies. What you have here is parts of all those skies after I misted water on the sky and scraped the whole sky with a razor blade several times taking off this layer and that and then touched it up a little to get what we have here. (One of the great advantages of hardboard over canvas.) The last question was time of day, needed to give the painting a title. It had been morning right until the end, but by the time I finished it felt more evening. Time flies, I guess. That, however, is a better fit because I usually paint looking north, morning sunlight from my right, evening sunlight from my left. I never have to include the sun in my painting.

Description
18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

This one's all about the sky. It began, however, with the idea of painting a larger version of something like "Fall in the Lane". I painted the foliage but by the time I was getting down to thinking about what I wanted to do for the lane or street or whatever, it wasn't working. So I decided to paint a Thames scene, and proceeded to do so from the bottom up, slowly covering trees to make a dark sky. Well, I played around with the sky, lightening it by and by, which meant that the foreground had to be more detailed or it wouldn't look right, and well then there was my special bug-a-boo; the middle distance. I had some in the form of the Hungerford bridge, and there was no sense of depth in the painting. I just don't do middle distance... So I covered it up with this simple foreground who's only purpose is to support the sky and went back to work on my sky, which was what interested me anyways. I spent two days trying out different skies. What you have here is parts of all those skies after I misted water on the sky and scraped the whole sky with a razor blade several times taking off this layer and that and then touched it up a little to get what we have here. (One of the great advantages of hardboard over canvas.) The last question was time of day, needed to give the painting a title. It had been morning right until the end, but by the time I finished it felt more evening. Time flies, I guess. That, however, is a better fit because I usually paint looking north, morning sunlight from my right, evening sunlight from my left. I never have to include the sun in my painting.