Showing posts with label plein air at night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plein air at night. Show all posts

Friday, September 20, 2013

Night Painting the Harvest Moon, Core Creek Park

I went out to the park right before sunset to wait for the harvest moon to rise. I used two  8x10  reused (gessoed over) panels.

In the first sketch I still had a little bit of light left in the landscape where you could just make out colors. My concern though was capturing the values of the scene the best I could.


                                                                                          
                                                                                             

For the second sketch I went around to a different part of the park that would give me a view of  some water and the moons reflection.



As you can see in the picture I had my Mighty Bright light clamped on to my easel giving me enough light to see with.


Now I have some reference material to use for studio paintings that I have confidence in. I had taken photos too but they were useless, they just don't capture what the eyes really see.