The Empty Quarter or Rub' Al Khali occupies the bottom third of The Arabian Peninsular and as the name suggests is a very tough environment populated by nomadic tribes and was famously crossed by the Western explorer Wilfrid Thesiger which he wrote about in his book "Arabian Sands".
This is the third in my "Arabian Night" series and is the nearest so far to the title of the series. It brings together things I have learnt in recent series such as "The Sleeping City" such as keeping the colours quite desaturated with my penchant for Orientalism. I wanted to get across something of the scale of this desert and the isolation of the lone figure within it although one gets the impression that he is not intimidated by this hostile environment and is actually enjoying the view just as we are.
Based on a red/orange - blue/green colour complementary but kept quite desaturated. Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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