Miscellaneous sky effects included sundown, sunset, dusk, and the moon in PE. There was a super moon one night and we saw it while walking back from the fishing village on the community-made boardwalk. This painting however, shows the sun going down over the fishing shanty. As I painted, a lady walked by and said she knew the owner of the shanty, I said that the shanty would become famous on instagram! You see the lobster traps piled up in front. Fishermen would occasionally gather in the shanty at the end of the day and cook fish and talk loudly. It was quite a cultural immersion.
Sunset over shanty and lobster traps, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
At the back of the cottages there is an outdoor swimming pool surrounded by a fence. In the background was a very long field of green beans, and the dark pine trees surrounding it, and a creamsicle and cotton-candy sunset. With orange light, the green looked almost beige on the horizon. The pool which was bright blue, also had a reduction in chroma towards grey. I was really excited to paint this scene, because it had blue (cool) in the foreground, and orange (warm) in the background. If I were to repaint this on the horizontal format it would be even more impactful.
Sunset over field of beans with swimming pool, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
At the end of the day, the moon rose on the south side, and it reflected the golden light from the descended sun. Cows in a hillside pasture had an eerie amber glow. It was nearly impossible to try and paint this scene with almost no light, but I could not resist making a painting that I could call 'Moon over Cows', kind of like when I painted 'Crow on a Pile of Snow'. Its another one I might try and repaint to get the cow details right, and widen the aspect to 5:4.
Moon over Cows, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2024
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