Ice Planet

 I liked how the light hit the background mountains in an earlier painting "Out In The Cold" and wanted to base a painting around it. After trying out various compositions of an Islamic Summer Palace in the mountains of Central Asia I settled on a Star Wars related piece loosely set on the ice planet Hoth. Kept the colours fairly subtle based around a yellow/violet complementary with a bit of blue at the top to add a bit more variety of colour.

I have painted this early for my slot next month on Every Day Original as I will be away from the studio for the next three weeks.

Oil on linen 12" x 16".

There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.

Ice Planet - stage 5

 It is nearly finished, just need to finish the foreground and maybe a few tweaks on the buildings. I hope to finish it tomorrow and scan and post on Every Day Original before I leave for the USA on Monday. Good to stop here as I need to have a think about the foreground colours over my breakfast coffee.

Ice Planet - stage 4

 Work is s bit slow on this one as I have quite a lot of things to do as I prepare to go to the USA next week so I didn't get as much done as I wanted on the buildings. I stopped here so that I can have a good look at it with a clear head over tomorrow morning's breakfast coffee. I need to decide how dark to make them for instance and I'm too distracted today to make a good decision. It doesn't matter if I don't finish it before I go as I will have time to finish it when I get back and will be easily in time to post it up on Every Day Original.

Ice Planet - stage 3

 Have been away from the studio for a while so good to be back and have got on with the background mountain today. I stopped here so that I can look at it again tomorrow over my breakfast coffee and tweak if necessary before I go on to the buildings.

New colours used: Kings Blue Light, Lavender and Naples Yellow Reddish Extra.

Ice Planet - stage 2

 I finished the brown underpainting and gave it a desaturated violet/blue wash over most of it later on - violet because the painting is based on a yellow/violet colour complementary.

Colours used so far: Indanthrene Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Ultramarine Violet, Dioxazine Purple, Burnt Sienna and Permanent Orange.

Home Land

A Lonesome Road

 My solo show "Home Land" at the Abend Gallery, Denver CO finished a couple of weeks ago and have been informed that four have sold so far which is disappointing but the gallery is not surprised in the current uncertain economic times particularly in the USA.

They were: "A Lonesome Road", "Home And Dry", "Last Light" and "The Outsider".

Home And Dry

Last Light

The Outsider

 

 

Ice Planet - stage 1

 I liked how the light hit the background mountain in an earlier painting "Out In The Cold" and wanted to try it again in a different way. After sketching out various ideas of Islamic summer palaces high in the mountains set against the light hitting a mountain in the background I settled this morning on setting it loosely on the planet Hoth in the Star Wars films. This is two thirds through the initial tonal underpainting which I hope to finish tomorrow and try and get the blue wash over it later in the day as it could well be dry by four in the afternoon in this sunny weather.

This is being painted early for my slot on Every Day Original next month as I will be away from the studio for three weeks 19 May to 10 June in Pennsylvania painting on an historic farm near Amish country as an Artist In Residence.

Oil on linen 12" x 16".