Stony Road

"The Stony Road" is a more adventurous work, as it features more tactile images. The stoney road itself, running diagonally through the picture, shows the rough textured working of plasticine, multi- layered in colour and scattered with stones (small worked pieces of plasticine).

The trees - in full autumnal leaf - at this stage, are still flush to the board, but being scored to show texture. The foliage is made up of scrunched-up plasticine.

The sky is pure paint and streaked, to give the effect of clouds and the middle ground is a mass of autumnal colours representing fallen leaves.

The foreground has grassland, interspersed with stone work; rocks and boulders. The sky is blue/white and the rest of the painting is browns, yellows, reds, greens and golds. The road is a mixture of all of these colours, with a top overlay of chalky, dusty white.

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