Bill Alexander - Sunset IV

This is painting # 53 for me. I've been wanting to try painting along with Bill Alexander for quite some time and really liked this painting he did. The video for "Sunset IV" was recently uploaded to the Alexander Art Youtube channel. Bill truly was a master because this painting looked deceptively simple. In the end, this was the most frustrating painting experience I've had since I began painting last year. I just couldn't get it to look like what he was doing in the video. I also must have cleaned my brushes at least 50 times during this painting, particularly when painting the sky. After finishing my sky and abandoning having light rays shining out from the lightest spot, I was already so tired of this painting that I considered scraping it down and just starting over some other day with a different painting. I tried to make the cabin but it really wasn't working so I improvised the rest quickly and tried to add trees like he was doing. After a week or so, I took another look at it and realized it isn't that bad looking in the end. It was just such a frustrating experience that I had to step away for a full week and collect myself. 18x24