A Painting Sequence

 Silent Village (detail). Private collection.

 Continuing an exploration of greyed color in a limited range.

The old photo of Robin Hood's Bay

 Totally intrigued by the village (see post http://tomsarmo.blogspot.com/2013/02/english-village-smugglers-and-secret.html ), I enlarged it and found this great section of old houses.

 That led to this slightly exaggerated drawing on a board primed with cad red.

 I threw in an under-painting of grey--a bit of an experiment.

I scrubbed in very greyed-down color--thinly. I was going for a snaking back of the buildings, so I used the blues for that.  I wanted muted color and close values for a haunted sort of look. Still, there wasn't quite enough contrast.

Silent Village. Acrylic on cradled hardboard, 8" x 8", Private collection

The finished piece. No cheerfulness here I hope.

Thanks for the visit!

English Village, Smugglers, and Secret Passages

The Sawmill. Acrylic on cradled hardboard, 5" x 5".

(Continuing my exploration of grey.)

Years ago, in a junk store, I found a sheaf of small papers obviously cut from an old book. 

Among the papers was the inscription:

June-15-44

Sgt. Vernon J. _ _ _ _

Hdqs. 401st Bomb Group (H)

A.P.O. 557 c/o Postmaster

New York, N.Y.

Also among the papers were a few photographs of places in England, one marked Robin Hood's Bay;

an intriguing place that I will visit someday, especially after finding this link:

http://www.robin-hoods-bay.co.uk/index.htm

This little painting is my interpretation of the old photo. Best I could tell, the main building was once a sawmill. Hence my title.

Thanks for reading!