| Hawaiian Skies © Marian Fortunati 12" x 12" Oil on RayMar Panel |
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Tyler will be out of school soon and this year in our Los Angeles school district, the summer will be very short. They are changing the calendar so that school will start again in mid-August and not early September. Supposedly it is better for breaking up the semesters and for high school testing schedules. Right now all it means is that the summer will be very short this year.
The family had been dreaming of going somewhere on vacation. Hawaii was an option, so I decided to paint a Hawaiian scene. I like Darrell Hill's work a lot. He is a wonderful artist from Hawaii who is not only a skilled draftsman, but can imbue his paintings with unique and lovely color. His skies are often yellow.
I tried to make a yellow sky like his. Didn't come close... but I will continue to experiment with colors in places I don't usually think they should go. I also used my imagination and added in the far shore in order to make the water seem more like a bay rather than a huge stretch of ocean. We are, after all supposed to be designing these paintings, not copying from photos or studies. I'm sure there will be more yellow skies in my future.
We probably won't get away for a Hawaiian vacation, but at least I can pretend by painting more tropical scenes.
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