This is the painting that I had four hours to work on in the Sky Landscape Artist Of The Year competition. I was asking a lot of myself to complete a tonal underpainting before going to colour and indeed towards the end I had to rush the bottom half of the painting hence it's somewhat minimal look. It did it's job though and makes the finished painting relatively coherent to be judged at the end. I was quite surprised that I made it to the last three as I find my work doesn't really connect with the Fine Art market in the UK especially as one of the judges couldn't get past me painting it as nighttime....
I had a long chat in front of camera with Tai-Shan Schierenberg at the beginning when I explained what and why I was going to do and he was intrigued... but all that got edited out! Kate Bryan actually never spoke to me but my friend Rich Newman who was also there said that she spent a long time looking at the finished painting so maybe she liked it after all. She may have seen the underpainting stage and didn't realise that I was going to add the colour later and thought it was too boring to talk about!
Anyway I was somewhat relieved to not win the heat as the dates for the follow up semi final etc were running way too close to my tour of the National Parks in the South West USA which was booked for late July.
Oil on linen 22" x 16"
No comments:
Post a Comment