volcano beginnings

started a new painting . . . 

but not my norm . . but this is the second in a series for my daughter . . .  the volcano lover !! painted the under painting (landscape) then added prussian blue and payne's grey mixtures of glazes . . . rebuilding colors lost in the darkness.  working at making in night but with the light of the sun down behind the volcano . . . as well as the eruption lighting the piece . . . the butterfly and flower will be in darkness with bits of light but i find several layers of adding dark and light give it a more three dimensional feel.  gives more of that feel of trying to see through the night air.

1st painting of series

i have to stop for a few days to participate in the fun with chalk fest this weekend !!!! so it will sit at this stage for now . . .

the composition is a combo of about 5 different photos . . . a recent iceland volcano gave of the horizontal smoke and the foreground was from our yard in oceanside.  yes keeping meaning somehow connecting the work to me.

the first painting in the series was the work to the right.  all acrylic glazes and layering. the landscape looks black but is full of greens, purples, blues, etc . .  . the trees are from her wedding pics . . the eruption flow is from when i was born in hawaii (my dad took photos of the volcano eruption on his trip to the big island) . . . and the night sky and lightning from photos i have admired.