The Color of Light: An Artist's Blog

5/13/2021 11:09:21 AM

Getting creative with color

Kim Eshelman / Comment on this

Recently I captured a great photo of a river meandering by that I knew I would want to paint. The other day I grabbed my materials and was looking at the reference photo. The reference is a bright, blue sky day around noon with cool light everywhere. But I was in the mood to create a sunset. 

 

So I did. I thought about the "golden hour" of sunset and imagined what this photo would look like at that time. Using creative license to make a painting my own is one of my favorite things to do. I swapped all the green out for orange and created a sunset. 

 

 

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