Red Sunset Acrylic Painting Monet and it lends equal grace

and it lends equal grace to a study or a dining area where its depth opens up the room

their foliage warming into russet and gold against a bright

Warm orange set against cool shadow gives the picture its charge

It has the feel of an early summer morning in a garden that has only just woken up

equal parts nature and reverie

Red Sunset Acrylic Painting Monet and it lends equal graceThe sun has just met the horizon here, a white disc burning through banked cloud and sending a straight column of light down the still water. Above it the sky is churned into ridges of violet, plum and burnt orange, the paint laid on thickly enough to catch the light at an angle. A dark line of hills divides sky from lake, cool blue set against all that heat. Below, crimson and rose ripples spread outwards in broad horizontal sweeps that echo the fire