Return to Cedar Haven

We are painting six evenings at Cedar Haven Farm.  Tuesday night I had Tree Swallows buzzing me and a Baltimore Oriole serenading me as I worked.  I love this place. I decided to retry the cyan, magenta and yellow colour wheel and like the results.


This is my first painting.  It is 12" X 9 " and was fun.  The sky was amazing but changing quickly so I tried to capture the fish scale and mares tail clouds.  I like this.  It was fun and only took about half an hour.

This painting was done next.  It is 16" X 12" so a bit larger.  The sun was beginning to set and the colour just starting to rise.  I was running out of time so I guessed at where the sunset was going and managed to get close.  The CMY colour wheel is all transparent pigments so the paintings glow and it is impossible to get mud.  This was painted with anthraquinone blue, quin magenta, hansa yellow and titanium white. I am not sure if I like the painting but I love the colour and it does look much better in real life.