Solo Show

 Here is the second batch of five paintings in my "Home Land" series just before I box them up to ship to the Abend Gallery in Denver CO for my solo show in late March.

All oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".

There are four left to ship and that will be fifteen paintings for the show.

Out Of Town

 Finally finished the last in my "Home Land" series destined for my solo show at the Abend Gallery, Denver CO in late March this year. This one is set in a notional swampland somewhere in Louisiana and is a follow on from an earlier painting "The Outsider" which has a strip of city lights running along the painting but this time with no buildings showing. Again in a way this is another outsider living in a shack in the swamps away from the bright lights of human occupation.... I suppose there is an echo of recent USA forest fires in the distance too....

Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".

There is virtually no step-by-step progress through this painting on the blog because I lost access to it for about a month while Google messed around with new EU regulations on cookies!

Out Of Town and an apology

 I am very sorry but for the past month or so I have been unable to post anything on this blog after Google messed around with settings for EU cookies regulations. It seems that it has been resolved!

This is around stage 6 in the progress for the last painting in the series "Home Land" destined for my solo show at the Abend Gallery Denver CO in late March. This one is set somewhere in Louisiana in the swamps with the lights of a town or city in the far distance. At this point I have roughed in the water reflections and and cypress tree stumps ready for a final pass tomorrow.

Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12",

Last Light

 The first painting of '25 and the next in my "Home Land" series. This one is set in Wyoming sort of (at least that is a version of the Tetons in the background) as I try to vary the landscape locations in this series. I felt that I should stop painting in lonely farmhouses and think of a variation on the theme and came up with a lonely car traveling through a vast landscape instead which I quite like as it gives me other possibilities and will lead on to the next painting that will have a lonesome car in it too. The metaphor of the home and the car within a vast landscape both hold up within the general theme behind this series so that is a handy development in terms of variation of content. The lighting is influenced by what I saw on my recent tour of US National Parks in the South West.

This the eleventh painting that I'm happy with of the fifteen I want to paint for my solo show "Home Land" coming up at the end of March at the Abend Gallery, Denver CO.

Oil on canvas 31 1/2" x 12".

There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.

Last Light - stage 6

 Still tinkering with the light on the mountains which is getting better but will be able to tell when the rest of the snow on the landscape is painted in. Didn't get a lot done today as I had an unexpected lunch with a friend that made a large hole in the afternoon so as the light was fading I decided to leave it until tomorrow.

Last Light - stage 5

 Still trying to get the mountains right and painted in a darker shadow area at the base to try and make the top of the mountains to glow a bit more. Need to look at it over tomorrow.s breakfast coffee and see if I am there yet before proceeding to paint in the land at the bottom.

Last Light - stage 4

 

I have made a start on the mountains and stopped  leaving the left side unpainted for the moment. There is something I feel I need to tweak on the areas that I painted today and I'm not sure what it is yet so I'm leaving it here and will have a look with fresh eyes over tomorrow morning's breakfast coffee. 

New colour used: Quinacridone Red.