Dune sunset
For this painting I mixed some ox gall into my prepared paint mixes to see what difference it made. It's a 'wetting agent', which had the effect of keeping the paint workable for a little longer plus stabilizing it a bit more so I didn't get colors running into to each other quite as much, so I found it really helpful. Its an animal product, so I will try an synthetic alternative as well in the future. The paper is a 600gm arches CP A3ish in size which I sponged both sides with water prior to painting. Saying all this I still found I only really had about ten minutes to paint this sky wet into wet, it really was 80% preparation + planning and then 1 2 3 paint. Once it had dried off I painted the foreground in.
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You bet,,, I cant do it, save with a camera, were we live the time taken for a sunsetting is less than
the blink of an eye,,, I never could fathom coming home from work at 5 in the far north, having a well earned nap, then waking up hours later to find the sun still setting... drove me round the bend, I had to flee for fear of diurnal insanity back to my lands where the sun simply sets then rises as it was trained to do in my mind....ha ha. The subtropics, Brilliant.