The Gap

Here is a new piece I painted in class last Thursday, again a landscape. But I tried to create a pretty expressive piece, mostly playing with red/yellow vs. blue/black. Originally I had planned to go for a bleak, depressive mood and the idea was to convey that also in a matte sheen of the painting. For that reason I switched to a wax medium (which makes a matte paint film) rather than the medium I normally use, which creates a pretty glossy paint film. But then with the intense red in the background, the painting is less depressing and downcast than I had originally envisioned. We'll see how the matte finish of the piece will go with that once it's fully dried...