This is a new piece, temporarily titled On the Canal, that I completed this weekend. This painting is kind of an extension of my Red Roof series that I have been working on for a number of years. This piece and a few others like it from earlier in the year are different than earlier Red Roof pieces in that the earlier pieces were more about the landscape in which the red roofed houses appeared. These newer paintings are more about color and form, the arrangement of both into an almost abstract form.
This is a smaller canvas, 8″ high by 24″ long, but has a bigger feel. From it I get the sense that I will probably do a larger piece in this manner. I think a large piece would have great visual impact and may start one soon. I will post any progress.
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This one has a very European sensibility. Not sure what that means, but it is interesting.
I think any time you see a closely formed village there’s a tendency to think of it as being European and quite honestly, it probably is derived from some imagined sense of medieval European villages.
The actual inspiration or these village-scapes is from the cityscapes of Egon Schiele. I really loved the abstract nature of his rooflines and the gorgeous colors that ran through the work. Not really about place, more about arrangement of color and form.
I was thinking about the style as well as the sense of place. Thanks for telling me about Egon Schiele; i had not heard of him before but his work is fascinating. I think your cityscapes are better, btw.