Sailing Into The Sunset

Tonight's painting was practicing a sunset scene. A calm evening sailboat jaunt. I started the painting by sketching in the sailboat and painting it in acrylics for a gray tone silhouette. I then masked the boat with tape, then went to work on the sky. The actual white sun is just the blank canvas. The other sky colors were medium yellow, cadmium red light, and dioxazine purple; blended in a light criss cross movement with a 2" scenery brush. I added some distant shoreline with the dioxazine purple and some van dyke brown. The water was done by scuffing in the same sky colors with a fan brush, then blending laterally with the 2" scenery brush. I remov d the masking tape from the boat and made highlights with the same sky colors.