Sun and Moon

My newest painting was a joint effort between me and Michael. He came up with this awesome idea one night of having a painting that was made of four different rectangular canvases arranged in a "circle." At the center it would be daylight and on the outside it would be moonlight. 

I loved it! For some reason, while he was describing it I kept imagining a Gustav Klimt painting with vibrant colors and random patches of geometric shapes. While I didn't want it to look exactly like a Klimt painting, it was the geometry and the colors that I wanted, so I kept picturing squares like this:

 

I started with white, bright yellow, and orange and started making loose squares. As I moved out, I slowly added more oranges and reds, then purples, then blues, then greens, aquas, yellows, and whites again (but this time mixed with aqua). The trick was to take each color and just use a couple of brushstrokes to apply it. It ended up with a lot of texture and colors. I didn't want any of them to mix too much. 

  

 I really like the way it turned out! 

One of the best parts (that was Michael's idea) is that I can flip the canvases and have the moonlight in the middle instead:

I definitely still want to paint the sides black before I hang them, but I have to wait until they dry a little more first.

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