First Touch of Light

This is a recent painting of sunrise on a spring morning in the Blue Mountains, NSW Australia. This area is very sacred to our indigenous first nations people and I wanted to experience it calmly and peacefully without tourists as I imagine they once enjoyed it.
When I first arrived I thought I was too late to catch the best moment of light, however light seemed to move slower this morning (or I painted faster) and I had enough time to capture the suns first glow as it hit the cliffs at Cahill's Lookout. Painted in a small 9x5 inch format in the tradition of the early Australian Impressionists like Arthur Streeton who would set out with their cigar box pochade boxes. This piece took about 35 mins working at speed to capture the atmospheric morning light.