From the Artist: I focused on the red light coming out of the sky reflecting into mountains.
From the Painting Guide: I think this painting makes the most of the wide format this project stipulated, depicting a landscape with an overwhelming sense of drama. The saturated colors in the sky fight for the viewer's attention with the dark tones in the foreground, while the reflected light on the river cutting through the foreground pushes the eye upwards towards the focal point of intense sunlight. It's a painting that immediately grabbed my attention, and which has held it, with my eye wandering around the composition noticing more and more details, variations in color.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Tone vs Color: Squint your eyes at the painting and spend a little time focusing on the tones or values only, ignoring color. Outline the shapes of areas of the lightest and darkest tones -- these are the building blocks of this painting's composition. Notice how they lead your eye from one to the other, how they link various parts of the painting.
Now look at the shapes again but looking for how the purples used link them. How this creates a gentle, overall unity to the composition. Sometimes if the elements in a painting look disparate, color is the key. Sometimes a glaze over the whole painting does it; other times adding a little of a color in other parts of the composition.
From the Painting Guide: I think this painting makes the most of the wide format this project stipulated, depicting a landscape with an overwhelming sense of drama. The saturated colors in the sky fight for the viewer's attention with the dark tones in the foreground, while the reflected light on the river cutting through the foreground pushes the eye upwards towards the focal point of intense sunlight. It's a painting that immediately grabbed my attention, and which has held it, with my eye wandering around the composition noticing more and more details, variations in color.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Tone vs Color: Squint your eyes at the painting and spend a little time focusing on the tones or values only, ignoring color. Outline the shapes of areas of the lightest and darkest tones -- these are the building blocks of this painting's composition. Notice how they lead your eye from one to the other, how they link various parts of the painting.
Now look at the shapes again but looking for how the purples used link them. How this creates a gentle, overall unity to the composition. Sometimes if the elements in a painting look disparate, color is the key. Sometimes a glaze over the whole painting does it; other times adding a little of a color in other parts of the composition.