Sunset in the Park

 

My toddler has become rather tired and sleepy after spending a day in the childcare. In the late afternoon after I finished work, I put him to the pram and push him to have a walk in the park nearby. The sunshine from the waning sun had dropped through the gaps among leaves of trees to the ground. What a beautiful sunset view, with a moving melody of light and shadows. Soon the little child had fallen to sleep.

I pushed the pram back home, put the child to the bed, and later started to paint the sunset view in the park. I've admired art works of Claude Monet at and J. M. W Tuner for a long time. Both of them are among my favourite artists, and had strong capabilities to paint light and shadows. I first drew an orange sun in the middle of the paper. I applied water on the paper, and then slowly applied colours for the sunshine and clouds, allowing the colours flow on the wet paper freely. I dipped a bit of blue pigment for the top of the paper to draw the sky. 

After that, I painted the trees and the ground. I am grateful to live in a location closed to this beautiful park. I have once written a song called The park near home", which is for the park I painted today, and its name is "Burnie Brae Park".