Burning Moonrise
Date: : College Sophomore, August, 2011
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 12x9 canvas
Description: A horizon over the ocean/sea at night time with a large moon resting on the horizon. The waves reflect the moon and give them shape. The sky is a dark blue, which contrasts with the lighter blue sea that is lit up by the moon. A black dragon with red wings is in the sky, forming an S pattern while it blows fire that seemingly envelopes the moon, making it turn slightly yellow in spots. Burning, fire, flames, red orange yellow, evil dragon, dark, nighttime, moonrise, moonset, lit up, water, waves, stars, sky, shine.
Artist Comments: This is the third canvas out of my four canvases in the summer of 2011. After getting practice with oil paints on the first two canvases, I decided to draw something with a little more feeling, and more artistic than just random shapes and colors. I really like the ocean and drawing water and waves (they are fascinating to watch and I always want to know how they work and how to draw them) and I also really like the moon and dragons, so I decided to connect them together, with the dragon setting the moon on fire to add a little more flare to the painting.
I think the best part of this painting is the waves, I’m rather impressed at myself that I did them so well.
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 12x9 canvas
Description: A horizon over the ocean/sea at night time with a large moon resting on the horizon. The waves reflect the moon and give them shape. The sky is a dark blue, which contrasts with the lighter blue sea that is lit up by the moon. A black dragon with red wings is in the sky, forming an S pattern while it blows fire that seemingly envelopes the moon, making it turn slightly yellow in spots. Burning, fire, flames, red orange yellow, evil dragon, dark, nighttime, moonrise, moonset, lit up, water, waves, stars, sky, shine.
Artist Comments: This is the third canvas out of my four canvases in the summer of 2011. After getting practice with oil paints on the first two canvases, I decided to draw something with a little more feeling, and more artistic than just random shapes and colors. I really like the ocean and drawing water and waves (they are fascinating to watch and I always want to know how they work and how to draw them) and I also really like the moon and dragons, so I decided to connect them together, with the dragon setting the moon on fire to add a little more flare to the painting.
I think the best part of this painting is the waves, I’m rather impressed at myself that I did them so well.
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