I’ve been working on this for a small eternity, and I am happy to finally release it. It turned out to be a much different experience than I ever imagined. (It’s not for sale… just a personal experiment…)

The work is just below, and under that are a few zoom-in details of various areas, in case you have further interest. There’s also a bit of a how-to down there.

More about the work

Since seeing a painting over the internet is sort of difficult, I have a few zoom-in shots, both directly overhead and from the side with a 50mm prime, in case you are interested in the details.

I have some videos on YouTube where I do these in different ways. ArtRage is pretty good, but this one is PS, where you make an invisible layer on top then use the oilpaint tool (and about 10 brushes) plus a wacom tablet to mix it the paints together. It’s cool because the angle of the brush bristles are the same as the angle of your hand above the tablet!

My goal was to deliver the feeling of a fire and a sunset, one in the same I think all the blues turned out really well. I was inspired by, among others, the work of Clyde Aspevig. I found the water very hard to perfect. I remixed my paint about 100 times before I got deep colors. I did my best to make the edge clouds a mix of fire, clouds, and smoke This signatures ensures that it will be worth more when I am dead I repainted the transition clouds time and time again until they felt right. Half my life, it seems, is spent staring at clouds. I did my best to show various layers of clouds in the atmosphere — from the high, wispy, icy clouds to the low, full, clouds of tumult. The canvas gave everything a nice texture… feels and looks good close up and far away I kept trying not to sing “Happy Little Trees” during this bit This was one of my favorite bits of the work – it came more easily than the rest