Butte - stage 1

Following on from the previous painting "Shadowland" this is another desert scene this time in Arizona in which all of the landscape will be in shadow again except this time the late afternoon sun is hitting the distant butte. The colours will be much warmer as it is set later in the afternoon and I will be introducing more variety of colour into the land in shadow but still painted by pushing around mainly transparent paint. This is another in my "The Big Sky" series of paintings which seem to be veering towards American Landscape and away from the urban locations.
This is just the stage where I have mapped out where the clouds are going in the sky by rubbing them out from the glaze with a rag. I used a mix of Phthalocyanine Turquoise, Lemon Yellow, Zinc White and Permanent Orange thinned with Liquin.
I have also roughly painted in the butte picking up the sunlight with a mix of Burnt Sienna, Permanent Orange and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin.
Oil on linen 30" x 20".