Apologies to Japanese speaking people the title is my clumsy approximate translation of "Cloud Temple" although I have also incorporated some Chinese landscape influences in this too. I quite like the idea of running everything off from the left using the trees to break up the lines. I usually try to find diagonals in landscapes as otherwise they can look lifeless and a bit boring due to all the horizontals and verticals. Most of my current work seems to be based on a moody muted landscape with a single light source somewhere in the picture... as in this one. I actually saw this one in my mind as quite a lot darker but once I had the moon in the sky I realised that I liked the soft glow it has and didn't want to f*** it up by painting it as I originally intended.
Oil on linen 22" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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