Idalou - stage 1

Idalou is way out in the boonies of the Texas Panhandle and is a follow-on from the previous painting "Sun Prairie" whereby I am going to make the sky the dominant theme of the painting to try and get across the isolation of the farmhouse in the surrounding landscape. The first stage was to "draw" it up with a small bristle brush using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and Lukas Number 5 Medium so that it would be dry for the afternoon painting session. Stage 2 was to put down a tonal underpainting with a rag and brush using some yellow and orange mixes thinned with Liquin and turpentine.