The Last Glow of Sunset, oil on canvas 25"x31"x1.5", 2022 spring Thousand miles of pure autumn

Thousand miles of pure autumn sky

and hints of red dominate the canvas

The winter wind leads to thought of leisure

each painting may take more than a month

I pay a lot of attention to the direction of the knife and the brushwork

The Last Glow of Sunset, oil on canvas 25"x31"x1.5", 2022 spring Thousand miles of pure autumnOriginal oil on canvas with frame 25"x31"x1. 5" Alone in the empty forest, I have an appointment with the orange cloud. I painted this in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Boston Mills, Ohio. It was late afternoon and then sunset offered up a dramatic, rapidly changing variety of colors, shapes and values. In this painting, I attempted to create a sunset that creates an elusive calm feeling that seems to settle over the landscape. I painted intuitively