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Saguaro Deset Sunset, acrylic on primed hardboard
I’d love to ignore it, but that glow around the cacti is just glorious.
Hey, thanks :)
I like how bright the sun looks. Feels like there’s an actual light source. Good job!
Thanks I wanted to make this one glow!
Sorry to disappoint, but I can’t ignore it. I love the strongly tinted bloom around the cacti.
Awesome use of color. Love those contrasts around the dun. Not a fan of the composition of your cacti though.
Damn dude, i like the mood!
Looks good. To commemorate the historic day: I made it my phone wallpaper. Lovely stuff 😎
This reminds me of a line in Forrest Gump.
“And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began.”
It’s beautiful
this looks great! for some reason I feel like it’d make a pretty good artwork for a waiting room in arizona haha
Love it! Fantastic use of light and color!
Really awesome! The way you painted the light in gives it so much depth and realism!
Thanks! I wanted to capture the glow you get when the sun is low behind things :)
Amazing work, this is beautiful!
Yes.
Do you have any of Utah?
Not yet!
No, I would not. How did you get it to glow this much? Awesome work!
Thanks! The glow is a combination of glazing pyrrol red and vat orange over a very pale primary yellow and putting it next to darker, flatter and greyer colours. Sneaking in some quinacridone magenta always seems to work some kind of magic, over red it make it a really punchy red srifting to purple with more layers. Then i made sure i spread the colour into the objects, and up past the edges of the horizon. Vat orange punches above its weight in glow.
Very cool. I have a friend who paints from time to time. I’ll make sure to let them in on these secrets. ;)
