Last week, headed north driving a friend home, we both suddenly realized that a spectacular was in progress over our ocean. I pulled off the empty highway and we watched the sun sink in one of the
Sunset and Cypress and Highway One
most glorious goodbyes I’d ever seen.
There were close to zero clouds, nothing to catch the brilliant color against wisps and puffs, an empty sky but for that stunning sun. I don’t ever remember seeing that before, no clouds, only the slightest line of fog near the highway. And blazing unobscured sun.
Returning home was equal to it, a night of stars and moon lighting up the ocean, catching white wave tips.
In less than an hour I was at the easel to record the black and green cypress clump just above the beach that framed the orange orb with Highway 1 rocketing in front of it all.
This picture is beautiful and wonderful. I especially love the movement in this painting. It is very animated and full of life.
Many thanks, Shelley. I pulled over to the side of Highway One near Hurricane Point to drink it in, it literally jumped out of the sky at me. I started painting as soon as I got back, to remember it. It’s still in the Hawks Perch Gallery in Carmel Valley, come for a visit.
Best to you.
Wow!!! So pleased you captured this sunset.
It was such a stunner. Very rare to see a sunset in a cloudless sky and no fog at all gathered on the horizon. Thanks, Bette.
Remarkable tour de force sky. Thanks, Bette.