Website Redesigned

Trying to make good use of all this lockdown time and in addition to the new paintings I have also redesigned my website as it was out of date and tired-looking. I am planning on approaching some USA galleries with my "The Big Sky" series and felt that if there was any interest I would need an up-to-date website as back up for background info like my biography etc. I am only showing work from the last four years although there is a link to my old work that I keep on some Pinterest pages in case anybody wanted to see it. I have tried to keep it simple with no bells and whistles and although I don't think websites are as important as they used to be (social media seems to have taken over) it is always good to have a place where people can see what you do anytime and anywhere on the planet.
Here is a link to it, if you spot anything not working please let me know:
https://paintingsbymarkharrison.com/

Keeler - stage 2

First colour pass on the sky, trying to keep the whole picture a bit lighter than the last one as there is more distance to try and convey. I used pretty much the same colours as the last picture; Prussian Blue, Permanent Orange, Lemon Yellow, Lead Tin Yellow Lemon, Zinc White and Unbleached Titanium.... mostly transparent colours again.

Keeler - stage 1

Following on from the last picture I decided to do another moonlit landscape this time in California, a small town called Keeler that I had seen in a TV documentary about William Mulholland, the controversial engineer that designed and built the water supply for Los Angeles from here in the Owens Valley in the early 1900s.
I like to choose in one way a very ordinary building or settlement and emphasise the often extraordinary landscape that it it is in with lighting and weather etc.  In this case the barren waterless landscape of the Owens Valley where there was once a lake that has now disappeared as Los Angeles grew and the demand for water increased.
This is the first tonal underpainting stage which I used a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and applied first with a small bristle brush for the "drawing" in and then with a rag once the 'drawing" had dried sufficiently.

Frontage Road

This is located right out in the boonies of Utah as I don't particularly want to paint well-known or iconic landscape or urban locations as in the end these paintings are about colour and mood and not necessarily about the place itself.
I had a particular lighting situation in mind for this one, a bright moonlit landscape i.e. not too dark but still reading as night time. I think I've got it but not that sure, I didn't want it to look like a fantasy landscape yet I wanted a certain magical feel to it.... oh well on to the next one.
The whole picture has been painted pretty much with transparent colours, a direction that I will continue to explore. 
Oil on linen 20" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting including what colours I used in previous posts on this blog.

Frontage Road - stage 4

Finished the sky bar a few later tweaks and tentatively working on the landscape now. I think I am going to work on top of it with scumblings and glazes of blues to get to the look of how I see it in my imagination. I will decide over tomorrow morning's first coffee of the day...

Frontage Road - stage 3

Painted in the second colour pass on the sky but will be finished tomorrow as I need to work on the foreground and landscape first to get the right tone of sky at the horizon - I have a specific look I'm looking for, a night scene but actually relatively light and dusty looking so I will be proceeding with caution. Same colour mixes as yesterday.

Frontage Road - stage 2

Completely cocked up yesterday and got the wrong location and therefore the wrong title for this painting! It is in fact on a road in the middle of nowhere called Frontage Road in Utah...
So, as before this will be a moonlit landscape to which end I have painted the first colour pass on the sky as well as giving the landscape an extra glaze of the Burnt Sienna/Winsor Violet mix.
The picture is based around a blue - orange colour complementary, mixes of the following colours being used: Prussian Blue, Permanent Orange, Lemon Yellow and Zinc White. As in the last painting I am using transparent colours for the sky.