ossory
Weather as the Subject
The same hillside beneath a vast towering sky of sculpted cumulus, light breaking through onto only part of the land below.
How this was made
This piece began with a photograph and a written instruction. Both are kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Repaint this terraced hillside landscape as a Jacob van Ruisdael Dutch Golden Age oil painting, c. 1670. Drop the horizon low: two-thirds of the canvas is a vast towering sky of grey-white cumulus with dark bruised undersides, sculpted and monumental, shafts of pale light breaking through onto only part of the land below. Weather is the true subject. The terraces become dense, tonal, deeply modelled greens and umbers under moving cloud shadow, sombre rather than tropical. Gnarled dark trees and rough scrub in the shadowed foreground. Muted restrained palette of greens, browns, greys and cool silver; meticulous naturalistic detail, fine layered oil glazes on panel, dramatic chiaroscuro of light and shade across the land, brooding northern European mood, aged varnish. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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