The concept was to paint nocturnal scenes of across Monterey Bay from Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. 
We intended to paint using only the moonlight, the distant park overhead lights, and a small head lamp. On our first attempt, both myself and the Mexican plein air painter Gabriela Marquez were met with a steady rain after about 2 hours of set-up and painting had passed. The showers came and went a couple of times before finally increasing in intensity enough to make us finally give up. We were working in acrylics. There was a point early on that our work could have been salvaged had the weather dried up, but as it turns out it went in the opposite direction.
We intended to paint using only the moonlight, the distant park overhead lights, and a small head lamp. On our first attempt, both myself and the Mexican plein air painter Gabriela Marquez were met with a steady rain after about 2 hours of set-up and painting had passed. The showers came and went a couple of times before finally increasing in intensity enough to make us finally give up. We were working in acrylics. There was a point early on that our work could have been salvaged had the weather dried up, but as it turns out it went in the opposite direction. At about 10PM we finally packed up and put what was left of our paintings in the car. 
We both decided to keep what was created from the combination of our work and Mother Nature's.
We both decided to keep what was created from the combination of our work and Mother Nature's. We then returned a week later, and to our pleasure the rain was nowhere to be seen this time around.
I am very pleased with both paintings. The 'rain assisted' abstract painting is thin and washed. Its color and temperament are reflective of the rain, fog, and cool evening air from under which it was created. It is abstract, modern, and deliberate in it's composition.
The 2nd work is also an acrylic base, but with a bit of oil paint on top representing the lights. 
With layered background colors of blues, grays, browns, and reds it provides a base to project the distant warmth of the cross bay lights yet does not allow one to escape the surrounding chill and empty darkness looming outside of the frame. The peaceful calm of the rippled bay is challenged by the gathering wedged and rolling clouds. The browns and reds show up much better than is represented in the photograph.
With layered background colors of blues, grays, browns, and reds it provides a base to project the distant warmth of the cross bay lights yet does not allow one to escape the surrounding chill and empty darkness looming outside of the frame. The peaceful calm of the rippled bay is challenged by the gathering wedged and rolling clouds. The browns and reds show up much better than is represented in the photograph. 
What a wet mess!
Many of the rich colors were lost as the water ran off of the canvas carrying the pigments with it.
Both the abstract and the impressionistic paintings are available for purchase at http://www.chrisgeremia.com/.
