A landscape painting in acrylics on a portrait orientation canvas. The lower two thirds of the canvas are taken by a bleak, textural brown hillside with little features except marks scratched into wet paint, suggesting grasses. Above, on top of the hill is a stone circle of 22 tall stones with irregular shapes and height, seen in silhouette against a delicate sky of cloudy lilacs and pinks, with a faint area yellowish sun. The point of view is from below, giving a feeling of smallness, distance and perhaps inferring reverence.

Callanish

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: LandscapePosted on No Comments

24 x 20″ (50 x 60 cm) Original Acrylic On Canvas. From sketches and photos made at Callanish Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Scotland during a wet and windy week in February 2012. The Isle of Lewis has it’s own special colours – especially during the late afternoon in the Scottish Winter, when the landscape …

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