Hub Prime

After finishing "The Dark Citadel" I was planning on having a rest from painting and do some other things but the idea for "Hub Prime" just came to me in the bath and I felt duty-bound to paint it. This one is very unusual for me as it's a Science Fiction- oriented painting which I haven't really done since the early 2000s for a book jacket commission. In fact I have another S/F idea that has come out of early thoughts I was having for "The Dark Citadel" so the next one will be S/F too...
This one is set on another planet with two moons in the dusk sky, four monorail-type travelways head towards a giant cave below a glittering city that straddles a canyon.
It is based around a blue/green - red/orange complementary, most of the sky using mixes of Prussian Blue, Permanent Orange, Zinc White and Lead Tin Yellow Lemon (all Michael Harding paints).
This might be a painting I bring to IX in October.
Oil on canvas 31" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.