Red Sunset Acrylic Painting Monet equal parts nature and reverie

equal parts nature and reverie

Warm orange set against cool shadow gives the picture its charge

where it echoes the warmth of shared meals

strides toward the viewer while the others trail into the distance beneath a soft orange sky

a worn earthen path winds through tufted grasses scattered with wildflowers

Red Sunset Acrylic Painting Monet equal parts nature and reverieThe sun has just met the horizon here, a white disc burning through banked cloud and sending a straight column of light down the still water. Above it the sky is churned into ridges of violet, plum and burnt orange, the paint laid on thickly enough to catch the light at an angle. A dark line of hills divides sky from lake, cool blue set against all that heat. Below, crimson and rose ripples spread outwards in broad horizontal sweeps that echo the fire