And now for something completely different...nighttime painting!

[lunatica]

5. It puts me in mind of a skeleton

Don’t get me wrong, I like skeletons and even painted some dancing and partying when I was eleven years old. One skeleton was waving a bottle of booze. Skeletons fascinate me.

It’s interesting and intriguing that the side of the house and the roof simply disappear into the formless darkness leaving only the front in view, looking like it’s stripped to its bare bones. Only the branches of the tree are casting a shadow on it so it looks like there is a harsh white light, seemingly from a lamp post glaring on it.

The white dots on the tree puzzled me until I read your blurb and realized it was Christmas lights. Maybe if you paint a glow around them they will look more familiar. Though they too can be seen as the skeletons of light too.

Being familiar with your depictions of houses, your inclusion of shadows cast on walls, your attention to the details of foliage and to the backgrounds and lighting, I find this quite interesting in contrast. I think you painted the barest minimum. As if you just wanted to strip your painting down to it’s bones. I like it.