Last Light

 The first painting of '25 and the next in my "Home Land" series. This one is set in Wyoming sort of (at least that is a version of the Tetons in the background) as I try to vary the landscape locations in this series. I felt that I should stop painting in lonely farmhouses and think of a variation on the theme and came up with a lonely car traveling through a vast landscape instead which I quite like as it gives me other possibilities and will lead on to the next painting that will have a lonesome car in it too. The metaphor of the home and the car within a vast landscape both hold up within the general theme behind this series so that is a handy development in terms of variation of content. The lighting is influenced by what I saw on my recent tour of US National Parks in the South West.

This the eleventh painting that I'm happy with of the fifteen I want to paint for my solo show "Home Land" coming up at the end of March at the Abend Gallery, Denver CO.

Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".

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

Last Light - stage 6

 Still tinkering with the light on the mountains which is getting better but will be able to tell when the rest of the snow on the landscape is painted in. Didn't get a lot done today as I had an unexpected lunch with a friend that made a large hole in the afternoon so as the light was fading I decided to leave it until tomorrow.

Last Light - stage 5

 Still trying to get the mountains right and painted in a darker shadow area at the base to try and make the top of the mountains to glow a bit more. Need to look at it over tomorrow.s breakfast coffee and see if I am there yet before proceeding to paint in the land at the bottom.

Last Light - stage 4

 

I have made a start on the mountains and stopped  leaving the left side unpainted for the moment. There is something I feel I need to tweak on the areas that I painted today and I'm not sure what it is yet so I'm leaving it here and will have a look with fresh eyes over tomorrow morning's breakfast coffee. 

New colour used: Quinacridone Red.