The first painting after my return from IX last month.
After producing a number of fantasy oriented paintings for IX I am returning to painting work for my solo show in March at the Abend Gallery, Denver CO. I am considering changing the title of the series to "Home Land" as all the paintings are ruminations on the theme of home within vast American landscapes. This one is set in deepest Winter in maybe Wyoming (all these paintings are imagined landscapes and are not real locations) with a lonely farmhouse set in a vast snow landscape. The area of sunlight on the distant mountain was unplanned and was only going to have the sunlight picking out a few ridges but when the initial colour pass on the mountains had left that area with just the underpainting showing it occurred to me that it could be the whole area in bright sunlight. I will be developing this lighting effect in future paintings...
Based on a yellow/violet colour complementary (although very desaturated). Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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