Evening Sunset 2

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

Heinrich Heine

Mark O'Connor is the best fiddle player I've ever had the pleasure to hear. He started playing at the age of 11 and in less than a year was winning competitions at a national level. My absolute favorite number he does is Jerusalem Ridge. It is bluegrass fiddling at its finest. It's also the song I play when I want to really get moving on a painting. I haven't touched this Evening Sunset in quite a while but I knew that I needed to get more of an underpainting job done on the tree and other greenery. This is the point where its really important to work the whole canvas at once. Although it still doesn't look like much the bones are there. Mark had me flying all over this! Next session will be much slower ~ probably some yoga music ~ time to work on details.