The fourth in this as yet untitled series of metaphorical landscapes is set somewhere in an imaginary Kansas as I wanted a flat horizon with a house looking lonely and exposed in the vast featureless landscape. I wanted to paint something compositionally simple in contrast to the previous painting that was full of incident but this of course has it's own potential problems in that everything that is there must look right as the eye is not distracted by superficial detail. For some reason I kept thinking of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz...
I spent a lot of time on the sky as due to it's dominance it had to look right and in the end deviated a lot from my original reference but I think it succeeds in looking rather threatening!
The next one will have an urban setting...
Oil on canvas 39" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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