The Night Owl

 This looks like the last in my "Snow" series as it has now morphed into a new series called "The Sleeping City" of which this is the first...

A decade ago I was doing a lot of Edward Hopper-inspired paintings which tailed off when I started to produce work with a more Fantasy feel as I had broken back into a market that I thought I had left behind but which at least I still had some tatters of recognition in. I seem to have come back full circle with the Fantasy work now informing this more "Fine Art" aspect to what I do. "The Sleeping City" will (hopefully/presumably) be a return to some urban scenes with possibly a slight Retro feel to them combined with a Fantasy sensibility in terms of mood, atmosphere and lighting.

A recent theme has been the solitary light in an urban or landscape scenario which I now intend to develop for this new series in one way or another. Whether they will all be nocturnes for instance I have no idea at this point....

I had originally saw this in my mind as based on desaturated blues but as it progressed I decided to keep some of the colour of the brown/purple underpainting to give it more variety of colour.... this is the advantage of being your own Art Director, you can change things, quite a lot sometimes.

Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".

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