Cooks beach canvas

I absolutely loved playing around with all the colours of the sunset for this painting. It's a reasonably large canvas and with so much space to fill I thought I'd experiment with using spraypaint to get the base colours laid down, and it worked really nicely! I find it so much quicker and easier to create smooth blends of colour using spraypaint, although I still had to go in with some brush work after to get more depth and richness of colour on some areas. The sky on the left went through a few different layers of work as I tried to get more of the light blue and white with yellow glow to reflect off those wispy clouds and I definately had to step away for a day to get rid of some frustrations building up while the sky turned a bit muddy...but after a bit of reflection on the right tones and techniques I finally was able to capture the right colours!
The little girls in the foreground was an added extra requested by the client to represent their daughters, as this artwork is a gift to her husband on their wedding anniversary! It's always such an honour to be able to create something so meaningful and personal for someone.

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Some images of the process as colours were added in...

And as I was experimenting while creating this painting, I managed to salvage my experimentation and created another, much smaller painting along the same vibe... :-) It's always fun when experiments turn into fun pieces of art!