This painting kind of lies in two recent series I have been painting, "The Big Sky" and "Magic Light". Another American landscape of the Desert South West this time in a small town called Orogrande in New Mexico incorporating a recurring subject of my work, the deserted gas (petrol) station in the middle of nowhere. The sickly green light on the building implies that it could still be in operation and is that a light on in one of the battered pumps?
The whole picture is keyed to the light on the building which I made the brightest part and then made sure that the moon was a bit more subdued so that the eye goes to the building first and the landscape second. I quite like how the broken pumps look a bit like Wall-e and give the painting a slightly more surreal edge.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting including the colours I used in previous posts on this blog.
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