Sometimes you just need a bit of canvas, some bottles of acrylics, and one good brush to break the tension.
Here it is without the crop:
When one painting is giving me grief, it helps to flip it over and do something to ease my soul on the back of it. That's what this is.
1) Yellow, light orange, dark orange, red, purple, and black.
2) The back of a work-in-progress.
3) One really good inch-and-a-half flat brush.
4) Ten minutes and I'm settled down, attitude adjusted.
NOTE: One thing about this is that working fast can be really fun. You squeeze the paints straight from their bottles onto the canvas in drips, lines, little puddles, where you're going to want them, swipe your brush across them starting with the lightest tint and up into the next color to spread and blend them, wash out our brush quickly, pick up where you left off and do the next section, and repeat until you're done. The paint will still be a little damp, so the silhouetted mountain overlay picks up a touch of the lighter color, which is a nice effect IMO. HELPFUL HINT: Use the absolute minimum number of brush strokes possible, which I failed to do here, mainly because I was pretty stressed and not thinking straight when I started.
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