Eclipse Over Red Hills. 12″ x 36″, Oil on Canvas, © 2017 Cedar Lee
$490
Here you can see the “diamond ring effect” in the sun’s corona at this moment of the eclipse. I painted the yellow/gold sky smooth and flat, while the texture of the moon and the land is an extremely thick texture created with cold wax medium painted on with palette knives.
The Blue Ridge Mountains, one of the most beautiful landscapes you’ll ever see, are etched into my mind’s eye from the years I lived in Asheville during my teens.
One of the distinctive features of this ancient mountain range is how ripply it is, the mountains spread over the land like a very rumpled blanket with many folds. Because of this, particularly when the sun is low in the sky, the mountains in the distance appear in a multitude of gradations of color. This effect has always inspired the way I paint mountains.
The painting, including the thick texture of the paint of the mountains and the thin smoothness of the paint of the sky, continues around the edges of the canvas.
The painting is 36″ wide, and because of the dramatic panorama format, it has the presence of an even larger painting.
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