Another Orientalist painting for sale on Beyond The Every Day/IX. This one is set in Central Asia in the Uzbekistan region maybe, trying to get across the steppe landscape with the lonely caravanserai in the middle of it. A caravanserai is a building usually on a well traveled route such as The Silk Road where a caravan can rest up at night safe from bandits that prey on the vulnerable cargoes.
It is late afternoon and the low sunlight catches the walls of the building and the clouds behind, the lower part of the picture is in shadow with three men around a camp fire by a river creek - are they up to no good and waiting to rob somebody?
This is the first pass on the tonal underpainting using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin with some Amethyst and Permanent Orange used for the building.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
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