Painting the town red...

Joined a new meetup group, Burlingame Painters, to see if I could get moving on painting here at home. Don't want to have to wait years for vacations to get some painting out of my head. We met this morning in the park behind Burlingame Station.

Well, it worked!

My customary illustration technique here: line and wash. Used black ink, colored ink, Inktense watercolor pencil, and regular acquarelle combined.

The lighting was very contrasty, with very dark shadowed areas and very light highlights, so this is farily accurate as a rendering.

GREAT Pumpkin Paddle Oct. 18, 2013

If only you could see this the way the normal eye sees it! The wide angle lens makes the moonrise seem smaller. In fact, the low angle in the atmosphere does just the opposite: It makes it appear HUGE! Ah well, we saw it and it was fabulous. This is the "Hunter's Moon", first full moon in Fall after the famous "Harvest Moon". There was actually a minor lunar occlusion visible on the East Coast, but not on the West Coast. We paddled into the sunset, then paddled into the moonrise. Spectacular - literally!