Painted in Morlaix, Brittany, the viaduct arches over the old town. I couldn’t resist the verticality of the scene, and returned with my painting gear to capture the wonderful early autumn light as it threw rapidly changing shadows across the narrow street and buildings.
Key to this painting is the relationship between warm and cool, with the sunlight hitting the viaduct and entering the scene from the side street to the left. I kept the colour palette limited to accentuate the warm/cool relationship - with cool prussian blue and titanium white playing out against ochre, cadmium yellow, alazarin crimson and burnt umber.
I just loved the hanging light breaking up the void formed by the viaduct arch, and the appearance of the leaning building echoed by their stepped timber frames.
This oil on 3mm linen panel painting measures 25×60cm and is unframed.
Painted in Morlaix, Brittany, the viaduct arches over the old town. I couldn’t resist the verticality of the scene, and returned with my painting gear to capture the wonderful early autumn light as it threw rapidly changing shadows across the narrow street and buildings.
Key to this painting is the relationship between warm and cool, with the sunlight hitting the viaduct and entering the scene from the side street to the left. I kept the colour palette limited to accentuate the warm/cool relationship - with cool prussian blue and titanium white playing out against ochre, cadmium yellow, alazarin crimson and burnt umber.
I just loved the hanging light breaking up the void formed by the viaduct arch, and the appearance of the leaning building echoed by their stepped timber frames.
This oil on 3mm linen panel painting measures 25×60cm and is unframed.
