Nightwatch

So there we are living our little lives in the landscape below, above us a spacecraft from another planet quietly flies above partly hidden by cloud. There are no lights in the spacecraft, are they all dead after such a long flight? After all the ship is rusty and has been in space or other worlds before us for a long time, maybe it's running on some kind of autopilot, maybe it's a drone sent to keep an eye on us.
"Nightwatch" is another in my series of smaller paintings of spaceships and clouds that will possibly be heading for IX in October. In a way I'm not painting these as Science Fiction but more like this could be happening right now in the skies above.
It's based around a green/blue - red/orange complementary using muted mixes of Prussian Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Ultramarine Violet, Permanent Orange, Pale Violet, Permanent Sap Green, Burnt Sienna, Lemon Yellow, Zinc White and Warm White - all Michael Harding paints.
Oil on linen 16" 12". 
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.