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Sonja Sweterlitsch's series, Pennsylvania Sunsets, was a departure creatively as her past artwork focused solely on realistic portraits of women. Sweterlitsch found it quite freeing & fun to loosen up for this nature series. Inspired by artists John Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Eakins, & Elizabeth Peyton, Sweterlitsch uses Windsor Newton oil paints & a Walnut oil medium on gesso-treated canvases. She begins each painting with a photo shoot of her subject, before drawing the image & creating an underpainting in burnt sienna, burnt umber, & titanium white. Then she layers in her colors, going from dark to light, working up from general shapes to greater detail. Sonja Sweterlitsch Cloudscapes, Lake Erie Sunset

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