Sunset River Landscape | Original Oil Painting

Sunset River Landscape | Original Oil Painting

This Sunset River Landscape Original Oil Painting is capturing another one of those simple moments in life that grasp the heart and make us feel alive. The way nature paints the sky and reflects all those colors into the world around us is truly breathtaking. The blues, purples, oranges flutter across leaves, stones, and every little ripple in the rivers flow. And somehow natures glorious rainbow blends so harmoniously that one can miss it in an instant. This piece of art it in no special location, no hidden place, just a small walkway alongside a small town bridge. But, in taking the time to slow down and breath the fresh air while looking into the freely given blessing of the natural world, we are given everything we need in one moment.

Sunset River Sky Landscape Oil Painting Andrew Gaia

Also, this Oil painting surprisingly taps into my affinity for Bob Ross and the idea of Happy Accidents. You see, as I was working my way around the piece, getting some really nice soft and thin layers of paint to flow across the blue sky and clouds, their was a mishap. And as a result, the canvas went flying onto my palette getting random splotches of paint all over the place.

Well I wouldn't be much of a Ross fan if I didn't just roll with the "accident" and take this sky river oil into a new realm with what was handed to me. The result is an alla prima piece that blends areas of thin and heavily impasto thick paint holding all sorts of unique points of visual interest. An added bonus was the great fall lead to a use of greens in the sky that originally had not anticipated, but lead to a more balanced color spread across the painting. Sometimes art is just so fun as it unfold for us in unique ways.

Title:

Sunset River Landscape

Technical Specs:

Medium: Oil Paint

Surface: Canvas

Size: 8 X 6 Inches

Frame: 1 5/8 Deep Black Gallery Frame

(3 in. Solid Wood White/Gold/Black/Mahogany/Silver also available, contact before purchasing andrewgaia13@gmail.com)

Approach: Alla Prima

Andrew Gaia is a Fine Artist and Illustrator from the great forest state of Pennsylvania. From an early childhood, nature and the world around him, inspired the artist to see and appreciate things in a unique way. As he developed his Artistic and Oil Painting abilities, it became clear that his way of viewing the world was different then those around him. Being able to see the entire universe in a single moment, drove so much passion and appreciation for this world, that Andrew Knew he had to share it. So, with an array of creative and visual abilities, and multiple decades of dedication and education, he paints.

Andrew captures moments, feelings, life.... in original paintings for all to draw power from. Look within the layers of paint, the expression of color, and dance of light and be teleported to a place so expansive, that time stands still. "Let my work draw out the life, love, peace, and tranquility that we all need.... and all have within us."