Katama Moon - Thaw Malin iii

"Katama Moon", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I planned creating another painting of the flat bottomed pond skiff, "Tidely Idely" (see my work March 30, 2011 on my website), which is moored just to the left of this view. However, as I was exploring the best place to setup my easel, I saw that the moon had just come up from behind the cloud bank. I am a sucker for painting moon rise images, but I had not been paying attention this month to moon phases. Normally I plot a plan of action a day or two before a full moon. This was a very pleasant surprise...

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Moon Full - Thaw Malin iii

"Moon Full", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I sort of knew where the moon would rise when I started this piece. But, I really didn't. I hadn't done a compass reading, nor looked at the astronomical chart. I was glad it wasn't off in the pines to the right as I might never have seen it until too late...

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Black Point Moon- Thaw Malin iii

"Black Point Moon", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

A beautiful, warm and sunny afternoon found me out along the paths behind the dunes. The Atlantic Ocean gently rocked the air with sounds of surf and scent of sea. Ducks dropped down into the reeds for an overnight rest. Moon rose from the east gaining its luminous power as the sun slipped ever lower and was gone...

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Farm Pond Moon Rise - Thaw Malin iii

"Farm Pond Moon Rise", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I used my compass and the astronomy info from wunderground.com to figure out the correct direction for today's moonrise. I checked with Google Maps satellite view to choose this location. My intuition told me it was a good place, but I just wasn't sure about that stand of cedars on the opposite shore... The moon had it's own plan and did not reveal itself until about 10 minutes after officially rising. At that point it was well above the trees...

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"Farm Pond Moon Rise", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I used my compass and the astronomy info from wunderground.com to figure out the correct direction for today's moonrise. I checked with Google Maps satellite view to choose this location. My intuition told me it was a good place, but I just wasn't sure about that stand of cedars on the opposite shore... The moon had it's own plan and did not reveal itself until about 10 minutes after officially rising. At that point it was well above the trees...

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Dreams to Come - Thaw Malin iii

"Dreams to Come", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

To start this painting, I stopped here, because I liked the evening view. I set up to paint and the sky turned purple and the the lavender clouds streaked through. As I included them in the image, the moon added its presence and completed the scene along with the distant thunder of the waves. The beauty of painting outdoors always reveals itself in its unexpected splendor... ...

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Long Point Moon - Thaw Malin iii

"Long Point Moon", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

This was the last full moon I was able to capture about May 15th. It is hard to believe the landscape greened up in just one month, but it didn't look like this on June 15th. This is on the glacier outwash plain, flat with a reluctant slope into the Atlantic Ocean...

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Moon And Mudflats - Thaw Malin iii

"Moon and Mudflats", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

This was a cool fall evening. The sun set at the same minute the moon was rising. However, the low lying cloud cover at each horizon delayed the rising from the setting by about 5 minutes. I thought I had gathered the correct technical information to point me to the exact location of moon rise, but, I was off by quite a bit. Ah, there is always next month...

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Moon Before Sunset - Thaw Malin iii

"Moon Before Sunset" , this is a Small painting, 6"x 8", oil on canvas panel

This was a hard juggle. The colors change so quickly at this time of day, but I think I caught it all. I had to block in everything but the moon. Then I had to do the final adjustments. As the moon's presence was revealed, I was counting on there not being a cloud bank along the eastern horizon to block out the first glimpse...

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Moonset Out West_4 x 7.5 oil__V....Vaughan

"Moonset Out West"___4 x 7.5 oil on linen panel___ $100 to the first to ask
I prepared my paperwork and files for my 2008 taxes this weekend. You mean April 15 has passed???? oops....Looking over all the receipts for the trips I have taken recently, I got excited about the places out west, so I painted this one from memory. I saw a similar scene one morning as I left the hotel in New Mexico. (click image to see detail)
If you are the first to want it, it will take me a couple weeks to ship this one. First, it is very juicy and needs to dry. (no real problem with 100+ temps in Texas these days)...but mainly because I leave tomorrow for Kerrville and the Western Art Academy, where I will have a FULL group of 24 high school superstar artists. I have 20 days to impart some oil painting knowledge on them and help them with the all important "oil change" or two. At the end of it all they are awarded with a group exhibit at the beautiful Western Art Museum (where the famed Cowboy Artists of America laid the groundwork). PLEASE stay tuned to my blog for lots of demos and lessons! I am in full "teaching mode" and I like to share! If you can come to Kerrville for the show, it's Saturday, July 28 at 1 pm, I think...

Moonrider by Janet Karam

Moonrider
22"x28" acrylic on canvas

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