NOT WHAT I INTENDED

Recently, I got permission to paint from a photo posted by a friend on facebook.  Yesterday, I decided I was ready to take a break from a large, difficult painting I'm working on and have a go at the wintery night time scene instead.

I got out an 8 x 10 canvas panel on which I'd already begun something long ago.  It had an orange and crimson sky.  I mixed a dark, velvety, purple-ish blue with which I intended to paint the new sky.  Unfortunately, I made my mixture too wet and so the paint wasn't covering the old color well, at all.  Being my usual impatient self, I kept trying to put on more paint which just resulted in lifting off the just applied blue paint.  Good grief!!!  Will I ever learn?

Suddenly, I saw how absolutely gorgeous those oranges and crimsons were peeking through the deep purple sky and I laughed.

And I changed directions.  Instead of fighting my paints, I jumped right into the flow and let them take me merrily down the creative stream.

This is the result.

Maybe some day I will learn  to use those complimentary colors deliberately in an underpainting 'cause they create something magical.

I'm grateful for the fun I had doing this little painting.