Paul McMillan

          

            
Southwestern landscape Painting
          

          


          

            
"229
            Crimson Haze"
            
16" x
            20"
            
Oil on Panel
            
No. 229
          

          

            
In this Southwestern
            landscape painting, "Crimson Haze," an original oil
            on panel, I was inspired to create a painting in a primarily
            crimson color. I often challenge myself to paint in a near monochrome
            pallete and in this case I used alizarin crimson, ivory black
            as well as a white that has just enough yellow mixed into it
            to be an ivory white. Here in this painting I worked strictly
            from imagination in the composition to allow myself as much artistic
            license as possible. In short I free myself from the constraints
            of a real place and simply promote the kinds of arrangements
            that benefit the maximum drama and luminosity that the laws of
            paint allow. Here in this painting I offer my most valid attempt
            to break some old habits by keeping it simple so I can better
            step out into the things I love the most in color and atmosphere.
          

          

            
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