The next painting in the current series this one is set somewhere in Kansas as I wanted a flat horizon for this one as the house must look as lonely as possible within a vast featureless landscape to get the visual and metaphorical idea across. I wanted paint a landscape that is in sharp contrast to the previous one, going from a landscape full of incident to something extremely simple in terms of content. By having such a simple composition causes it's own potential problems: everything must look right as the eye is not being distracted by superficial detail so I need to make sure that the clouds aren't too simple in terms of tonal variation and the foreground grassland must look right too.
This is the tonal underpainting stage using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and applied with a rag and brush.
Oil on canvas 39" x 16".
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