The fourth in my "The Sleeping City" series this one is set more on the edge of a city on those roads out that have all the gas stations and eateries along them with the large roadside signs. Under a shimmering moon a man walks along a strangely empty road with no cars where no lights can be seen but there are lit signs on the top of the distant skyscraper. Some orange light can be seen inside the nearest building, is it a fire? I have always enjoyed a mysterious feel to paintings and have tried to put that feeling into my work too, sort of dream/nightmare imagery. In dreams it's usually places you know but they are always somehow different, things missing or just unseen, to this end I am going to accentuate this in this series, I particularly like signs where there is no lettering or buildings with no signage on them.... that feeling of something is missing...
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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