Amplifying all the other feelings you get from the Hot Air Festival, the uplift, energy, and dreaminess, there's the luminous and other-wordly night time. The pilots burn their mighty torches, turning these other-worldly airships into emotionally-electric works of art. But before then, the sun sets, and its light kisses these artful airships in everlasting ways...
Dream Like Sky (Sunset Version)
Dream Like Sky (Sunset Version), Southwest Abstract Painting
Organic & Wacom Digital
"...unforgettable cascade of colors..."
The Sunsets and the Evening-Glows of the International Balloon Fiesta are one of the absolute best moments to experience this meetup from all-over the world, of these haunting crafts from another era which rise and travel using almost magical forces. Their immense light-painting can lift our spirits even higher when they're on the ground, sweeping the evening sky and atmosphere with infinite, somberly backdropped colors.
In my first painting as a memento of my emotions while visiting the International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico, I captured the feeling of the balloon lift-off happening in the morning. In this one, I really wanted to capture the wild uplift of emotions you feel when the day is coming to an end. The rush and excitement is being encapsulated by the one thing that lives forever in the heart of anyone who's lived in the Southwest - The beautiful desert sun's light.
How She illuminatins the balloons as magnificently as she does, with her unforgettable cascade of colors, all the other sunsets of the year.
The Art Supplies I used to make Dream Like Sky (Sunset)
These two paintings ( Dream Like Sky (Sunset) & Dream Like Sky (Sunrise) ), started out as pencil sketches from my photos of the International Balloon Fiesta. The main problem with turning experiences of this size into art, is that the event is so much larger than one thing. So I chose to embrace the two main emotions I've felt from it, the uplift from the morning and getting there on the field, to the exuberant finality you feel at the end. Hunting those emotions, artistically, led to experiments with watercolor and my Caran d' Ache pastels. I would finish this painting with my Wacom tablet, as an organically-based digital art.
