MoonShine
by AnnaJo Vahle
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20.000 x 16.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
MoonShine
Artist
AnnaJo Vahle
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
I was in the mood! I realized that I hadn't painted a moonscape in a long time. I simply reached into my memory and feelings and found this. I started out with painting the moon that I had seen the night before. I remembered the clouds floating over the moon. It was near Halloween and it seemed appropriate. I could see some stars between the clouds in the inky dark blue sky.
I started to paint the water in the same colors. Somehow that seemed uninteresting. I began adding bits of green to the water. I kept adding the deep turquoise green and enjoyed playing back and forth with the blues and greens. This is a color palette that isn't typical for me. I found it rather exciting to experiment with the new colors. I added some new colors that I had recently acquired. Most of the blues are ultramarine blue, manganese blue, and phthalocyanine blue. Most of the greens are hookers green and phthalocyanine green. Of course, I used white. I didn't use any black. Some of the deep colors are darkened with dioxazine purple.
Part of the challenge for me was trying to smoothly blend the acrylic paints. Acrylic paints dry very quickly, so that is a bit tricky. I used many layers to create some of the depth.
This is a 16” by 20” acrylic painting on canvas. I felt relaxed and enjoyed fiddling around with creating a pattern of waves and colors.
6/24/21.. 3rd place in IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD contest
6/27/21...1st Place TIED Win in the Moonscape Contest!
8-5-21..tied SECOND PLACE WIN in SEA Contest!
8/8/21...Third place in the Mostly Dark Contest.
9/18/21...2nd place tie finish in the Offshore Paintings and Photographs contest
12/15/21...2nd place in the Night contest
3/24/22...2nd place in OCEAN 5 contest
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November 29th, 2018
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Comments (125)
Sharon W
Deeply beautiful, such rich, gorgeous colors! A revisit but just had to. A most extraordinary work of art!
Gary F Richards
Spectacular MoonShine composition, lighting, shading, rich colors and artwork! F/L voted
Bernadette Krupa
AnnaJo, awesome night painting "MoonShine"! Congrats on multiple features - Fine Art Prints, Bedroom Art Gallery and Light Rays And Lightning!! L/F
Dale Kauzlaric
AnnaJo, for just fiddling around with waves and color, wow, what a piece of art, well done!
Gary F Richards
Outstanding artistic moonshine waves “how’d you do that” composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L voted
Gary F Richards
Outstanding moonlight composition, lighting, shading, stunning color and artwork! F/L voted
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, AnnaJo, on your Win in the Ocean 5 Contest for this beautiful painting! One of My Favorites. Voted.
Conni Schaftenaar
congrats, AnnaJo, on your 2nd place win in the Ocean 5 contest - I love this piece and always vote for it when I see it in a contest! voted, Fave
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… KTBUZZZ-2022 ART GAME SERIES- CHESS- MUST READ! Fl