Moonlit Sonata

Moonlit Sonata

Randy Peyton

Oil

18 x 36”

$3950

Moonlit Sonata is a painting that is more about the sheep on the distinctive horizon line, as Peyton disengages from his signatory architectural artistry to breathe life into a highly unusual pre-nocturnal livestock flock.  Grazing on the numerous and overgrown vegetation, the sheep speckle hints of grey and white along an already abundant floral field. Blending in hue and scale the animals do not distract from the foreground of blooming clusters. The mid ground in Moonlit Sonata is subjugated by two mature tree clusters behind a ranch-land posted fence; obstructing the view of a shadowy tree line under a moonlit sky.

Peyton’s pictorial illustration of the celestial moon is over exaggerated as if to mimic some alien-esque landscape similar to our own. Full in its entirety, the lunar satellite is round with perfection-illuminating the private estate of some Texas Rancher. Although a yellowish haze drifts up from the lessened background, there is only a minimal painterly sense of the diminishing sunlight.

As an Impressionistic painting, Peyton captures the true essence of the changing of light -as the day winds down slowing engulfing the viewer with the blue-haze milieu.

By: Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

J.R. Mooney Galleries