I just finished these two little oil paintings on wood panels. Both are 10″ x 10″ and are 1.5″ deep on the sides.
This one is called “Diamond Ring Eclipse,” because I’ve depicted the Bailey’s beads effect seen during a solar eclipse, which looks like a diamond ring!
Diamond Ring Eclipse. 10″ x 10″, Oil on Wood, © 2013 Cedar Lee
The color palette for both these paintings is both earthy and colorful. You can see here how the colors look slightly different when viewed under different lighting. In a sunny room, the reds and golds really glow.
Diamond Ring Eclipse. 10″ x 10″, Oil on Wood, © 2013 Cedar Lee
This one is called “Eclipse of a Binary Star” because the massive star being eclipsed in the foreground is part of a binary star system, the other star shown in the distance at the top. Our sun is not in a binary system, so obviously this vantage point is not Earth but some far-off imaginary rocky planet. Pure astronomy fantasy.
Eclipse of a Binary Star. 10″ x 10″, Oil on Wood, © 2013 Cedar Lee
And you can see the reds and golds popping under the different lighting here:
Eclipse of a Binary Star. 10″ x 10″, Oil on Wood, © 2013 Cedar Lee
I am excited to say that these two paintings were created in my new studio! I am still gradually getting things set up out there, but my paints, brushes and easel are out there and that’s all I really need.
Here are a few photos of me working in the new space–the large painting in progress shown here should be finished next week!
