So this one marks the return of themes that I was working on ten years ago, in this case the threatening shadow. I have deliberately chosen a comfortable suburban setting, the location being a housing area I remembered seeing in a town/city called Bowie in Maryland when I was staying with a couple of lovely art collectors who lived in the area.
I want everything to reflect the contrast between the suburban house on a lovely sunny day with the threatening shadow looming towards it from an unknown source - it's not a tree or a normal shaped building so what is it? I'm after a feeling of existential threat to comfortable normality.... there are bigger themes running through the Roadside America paintings which I will elucidate in due time.
This is the tonal underpainting stage using a mix of Burnt Sienna and Winsor Violet thinned with Liquin and applied with brushes and a rag.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
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