Dennis Doheny - American

Almost monochrome

Use of orange-purple complementaries

Fleurieu Landscape Competition

Morgan Allender, Evensong Gordon River,
Oil on Linen, 137 x 168 cm


Chris Delpratt, Through Trees and Beyond,
Oil on Canvas, 95 x 112 cm

These two Australian works are nearly monochrome. Australian artists have been greatly influenced by Chinese and Japanese ink landscape paintings.

John F Carlson - American 1874-1947

February Gaiety, 25 x 30 inches

Colour must be added with great sensitivity to a work that is basically a monochrome image of whites, greys and blacks. A strong colour would be deafening in such a still scene.