Back to my gallery work now as I need 15 of these paintings for a solo show in a Denver gallery next year... I was going to paint this awhile ago but decided to try and improve my painting of water before I started so some recent paintings have been partially exercises in doing just that. Whether I have improved enough for this painting we will find out soon enough...
As it is a relatively large painting (for me) I worked out that it would be difficult to get the whole tonal underpainting done in one day so I opted to make a start on the sky first once I had worked out where things are going. As this is a return to my "Point Of Light" series there will be a lonely trawler returning home from a while at sea in the failing light of evening/late afternoon. Everything will be painted in desaturated blues as a counterpoint to the tiny orange lights on the boat. Although it has a maritime theme it is really about you/me going home at the end of a hard day knowing some creature comforts are waiting for you, just a while longer in the gathering gloom....
This partial tonal underpainting uses my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and mainly applied with a rag.
Oil on canvas 39" x 16".
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