An homage to an homage.... I've always been a big fan of Ferdinand Keller a contemporary and friend of Arnold Bocklin who painted the famous "Isle Of The Dead" series. A favourite Keller painting is "The Tomb Of Bocklin" and my painting is an imagination of Ferdinand Keller's tomb in a typical Keller landscape of dark cypress trees which he usually massed together to form dark dramatic shapes in a high contrast landscape. To this end I have started to draw it up but felt that I had to stop today after massing some dark shapes for the trees as I decide on the rest of the landscape over tomorrow morning's breakfast coffee. At the moment I can't quite visualise how I want it to go so best to stop now and look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.
This is the beginning of the drawing up and tonal underpainting stage using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin.
Oil on linen 22" x 16'.
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