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Comment by Dorian Aronson on October 23, 2013 at 16:17

I will be watching to see what changes you make Sharon.......keep painting.........smiles to you : ))

Comment by Sharon Repple on October 20, 2013 at 6:22

Thanks for all of the wonderful comments, Jim, Manneherrin, Laura, Christine and Silvano. Michael, you are correct about the clouds, I'll fix it. Christine, you are right that my foreground is fighting with my sunset, I'm thinking about re-stretching the canvas and removing about 4 inches from bottom.  Manneherrin, I use Liquitex acrylics and try to stay with a limited palette. I use Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue and Indian Yellow for my transparent colors and cad red light, cerulean blue and cad yellow light for my opaques and titanium white. I sometimes use a thalo blue.  

Thanks again, I knew that all of you would help me spot the areas that need tweaking. 

Comment by Michael J. Severin on October 19, 2013 at 19:50

As always Sharon you have beautiful form and color!!  I have an observation and comment about your composition. Do you see those 2 strings of clouds on the upper right corner? ...they are messing up the nice movement of your large cloud shape ..plus, they are an odd shape and taking us out of the painting.    Imagine those particular stringers of cloud were not there .....do you see the better overall cloud shape and more fluid movement that would give?   Suggestion:  I would paint out those 2 strings of clouds and paint a darker blue/violet sky.  One more thing Sharon.  I think you might have over played those "cloud holes" ...maybe get rid of a few of them? 

Comment by Jim Haycock on October 19, 2013 at 19:03

Terrific colors!

Comment by Manneherrin on October 19, 2013 at 17:36

I love the orange/blue, red/green color harmonies values are on point..not too much but not too little...this has such movement it draws me in and makes my eye wanna look everywhere... 

question.. what kind of acrylics do you use.. im trying to get into them and i have no clue where to start and these have such rich pigmentation.

Comment by Laura Xu on October 19, 2013 at 16:42

It is beautiful!

Comment by Christine Lewis on October 19, 2013 at 15:43

Sharon, this is so exciting! I think your sky is just gorgeous! For me, it seems like the intensity of the foreground detracts from the beautiful softness of the sky a bit though. ( =  Your work is great!

Comment by Silvana M Albano on October 19, 2013 at 14:22

This is great Sharon!