There is a "rule" that says "Don't paint a horizontal line near the bottom of a painting as that will keep the viewer's eye from traveling up into the painting. Instead provide some-thing to lead the viewers eye up into it." This causeway seems to be ideal, so I included it in my painting.
Note: occasionally any rule is just begging to be broken.
These photos were taken in September, 2013 at 7:30 in the evening and it was a difficult scene to capture. The one on the left catches the wide range of darks, lights and colors present. However, it loses almost all detail in the near and far shores as well as the lake. The right one (taken with less exposure) begins to show that missing detail while spoiling much of the drama represented in the left photo.
Journey Way Point
"BIG HORN LAKE SUNSET"
Other changes include definition of the near and far shore lines and in the latter, adding depth by showing the far mountain
range. These were all things visible to the eye, but failing to show in the left photo. The lake was "widened" so reflection
of the sky could be exaggerated. How dark to make the central cloud was a bit of a conundrum. Would doing so make it
seem too near? I guess this was an artist's choice. Perhaps surprisingly, white is not the brightest color in oils, acrylics, etc, That honor belongs to lemon yellow. So a touch of it was added to the white clouds nestled on the left side of that central,
dark cloud. As to the photographs, to me that top left one wins the prize in spite of going black at both top and bottom.
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