I have enough paintings for the moment in my The Big Sky series and have been having some niggling thoughts about the thickness of paint that I have been using and when looking at how I used to paint say ten years ago, I feel that I have lost something even though I have gained many others. So this is the first in a short (?) series of smaller trial paintings, this one being rush hour in Anywhereville USA, a line of cars leaving town to get back home after work, a blaze of red tail lights leading to a dusk sky - so I guess it must be Winter. Unusually for me these days this picture has a lot more bustle and human activity in it, I guess I'll class this one as a painting to go in my Roadside America series. The tonal underpainting was "drawn" up with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna thinned with Liquin, the same mix being applied later on with a rag for the tone.
The first colour pass on the sky used mixes of the following colours: Indranthene Blue, Permanent Orange, Ultramarine Violet, Lemon Yellow and Zinc White.
Oil on linen 20" x 16".
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