Red Sky at Night

Here’s to a Red Sky at Night and all it’s meaning! Why? Oh I can’t wait to share. Before I share the details, here is more info about this blog. This is a place where, each week, I share my paintings, inspiration, gallery openings, plus an occasional dose of art history. Whether this is your first or millionth visit here, hiya, hello and a warm welcome! I choose a theme to guide my paintings each year. To read about this year’s painting theme, check the description in this link here. To subscribe and get a weekly dose of color for yourself, subscribe here. Ready for more about Red Sky at Night? Read on, gentle reader!

The Series

This week’s painting is the third in a series of paintings I did near the ocean this summer. Here’s the first one called Cerulean Sea and Sky at Topsail. The second one, called Favorite Runaway Places (sold). Here’s the third. It suggests a feeling to me. That feeling you may have when there’s a combination of change, uncertainty and clarity.

We all experience this and it even manifests in nature. I’m no weather expert but I love knowing that there’s some truth to the old adage “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.”

Good weather and perhaps even good things are on the way.

Here’s a larger image of this 4×8 inch oil painting on panel. And yes it’s for sale for $89 + $6.45 tax + $15 shipping = $110.45. To make it your very own, simply PayPal.me here.

Technical Detail

The beauty, to me, of this particular painting is the ground or first layer of paint: cadmium red. It’s such a contrary color to use first. Why? It’s so opaque and solid and well…red! You can see it all over this painting. That red helped me to enrich the sky as I painted it. And being the complimentary color lover that I am, I was delighted to add the grass in the dunes in the foreground as that red ground peaked through the brush strokes.

Still More Colorful News

If you live near Raleigh, North Carolina, I still have paintings on display at the Cafe Gallery at NOFO @ The Pig in Five Points, 2014 Fairview Road, near downtown Raleigh. The show will be up through August 6 and includes 10 of my paintings (2 are sold! Yip yippee!) all framed and ready to hang on the wall. Grab a friend and stop on by NOFO. Enjoy their delicious food. It’s a one of a kind gem, you’ll want to include on your “gotta stop by often” list near downtown Raleigh.

How About You

How about you gentle reader? Have you experienced a red sky at night this summer? If so, when and where? I would love to hear more. Please share in the comments below. And, thank you for looking and reading here today!