Earthquake sunset

Truly there is nothing stranger than standing still while the earth sways and trembles beneath your feet. That's what happened yesterday just before 2 pm. And, here is the sunset of this odd day, an abstract color gradient with a few ghostly little clouds in the upper left. This was painted after 8:15 pm facing west.


With little humidity and few clouds, the sky was crystal clear and full of pale color. Isn't it interesting that the dusk light can appear green? That phenomenon is called a green flash and is caused by light refracting through the atmosphere. It was also strange that the little clouds didn't catch any reflected sunset colors.


What a tranquil end to a rattled day. This is definitely a "skying" painting, kind of an atmospheric impression of sunset on August 23rd, 2011, earthquake day.