Northern Lights acrylic buffalo

                                                                  Northern Lights
                                                                         20"x16"
                                                                         Acrylic
Well I have been working on a new blending technique for acrylics.  And of course I am still enthralled with skies.  So the Northern Lights was a perfect opportunity to try to do another silhouette and I am partial to buffaloes.  This blending technique is trying to find the colors between two other major colors and then blend it seamlessly.  If I can perfect it the look would be much closer to what can be achieved with oils.  It sure isn't as easy as it sounds and I really struggled with this.  I just kept adding layers and glazes to try to bring out the various color tones.  What I ended up with for the sky bears no resemblance to what I was trying to use as a reference piece, but in the end I think I finally got close to what I was looking for.  I wanted to  have the color just float and be sort of transparent in the sky.  I definitely am going to work a couple more pictures in this technique and then going to go back and try another Northern Lights picture to compare and look for improvement.

Thanks much for taking a look.