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Original Creation

High County Sunset - Bill Alexander

Tom0779 29 Jan 2023

After recovery I am finally back on my easel today with a new Bill Alexander recreation. For my comeback I picked this one from the book ‚The magic of Oil painting IV‘.
I wanted to create something powerful with some crazy colors. This picture has been painted on a canvas which has been primed with liquid white and then given a coat of Indian Yellow. Something I never saw before 😀.
I like how Bill plays with color harmony. Actually he rarely uses more then 8 colors, here only 5 and white. With these limited palettes you get harmonic scenes in my opinion. Although I used a few cadmium red at the bushes on the left foreground. I felt it needed some addition there to make it more interesting. What do others think?
Overall a pretty straight forward episode where you can concentrate on forming interesting mountain shapes.
This is oil on canvas panel 16 x 24 in (40 x 60 cm)
Good feeling to be back to painting and to FIRE IN after 10 days without. 😀

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Comments

Beautiful, you're right the indian yellow gives it a unique dimension

Thank you Terry. Definitely something worth a try with the yellow.

Love the sky, mountains and trees, the rest is too bright for me Tom (🙂) but. It's brilliant anyway!

Mahlzeit Tom😁wie nicht anders gewohnt von dir. Spitzenklasse ! Fantastic work real Great colourful sky and Mighty Mountains . Bill wäre stolz auf dich 👍🏼

Woooooow I think it's stunning I have been watching a couple of his and Paulsons oceans on the internet. I love the way they talk about light and the colors there pictures are so... different from Bob's his colors get wild sometimes. Lolol

Gorgeous!

Thanks Nivek. I thought this is too bright for your taste, lol. I also prefer more darker scenes but want to create a wide variety ;)

Danke Dirk. >Endlich wieder Malerei, 10 Tage kein Bild ist hart für mich. Thanks Dirk. I am glad to FIRE IN again. :)

Many thanks Sherina. I find Bill teaches other stuff than Bob and I want to motivate people to paint his tutorials too. :)
I have see some tutorials by Paulson. He also has quite nice scenes but I am not sure about his material. He is using quite a lot of other stuff. This prevented me yet from trying one of his paitnings.

Thank you Sandy for your support as always :)

WOW!!! That's just an incredible powerful painting! So vibrant and just gorgeous. Perfect way to comeback from a recovery! I don't really see any other colors to add. It would take away from the the strong effect of it.

flippergirlpaints Top Event Submitter

Beautiful with the golden mountain range against the red/crimson sky! I have also watched a few from Buck Paulson on Alexander art, but have not found one that "speaks to me" to paint it yet lol. A lot of his that I have seen are darker seascapes.

Thanks Nancy, I just added a few red sparkles at the left side, one can hardly see it. I am glad you like it.

Thanks Pam. Yeah I think Paulsons style is very different. Yet I also did not find an episode which I must paint. Maybe if I spend more time on the Alexander Art YouTube channel.

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