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

Looking East by Randy Peyton

Looking East

Randy Peyton

Oil

22 x 34”

$3,500

An exaggerated curvature shapes the foreground- elevating the viewer to a top of an unknown hillside, a vista overlooking a scenic landscape. In the distance is the silhouetted backdrop a major metropolitan – complete with capital building and high-rises.  Alluding to Austin, Texas -based on the bluebonnet sentimentality, Peyton does not indicate any conclusive evidence in factuality of said demographic; like using a painting title reference or a distinct building outline.  Working on a simplistically balanced composition, Looking East has a mirrored effect with the likes of Live Oaks that dominate the foreground.  Along side the minimal tree line is the tri-level cactus strata that are almost too perfect in shape and intervals. Again the cactus and bluebonnets are arranged in a dual configuration that is cut across the forefront of the footpath. With the trail entering the picture plan in the middle of the painting, our eye goes straight up the path, and into the mid and back ground, with first interests of being drawn into the blue- miasma skyline.

By: Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

J.R. Mooney Galleries

Copyrighted 2012

South of Town by Randy Peyton

South of Town

Randy Peyton

Oil

24 x 36”

$4,850.00

Randy Peyton represents the new cohort of Texas Landscape Painters; leading a post Onderdonk generation of Bluebonnet Bounty.  Peyton has captured the Texas landscape like a scenic shaman, creating emotional and nostalgic reminiscences of days nurtured by the Texas heat- causing the viewer to relax in an art induced medicinal meditation.

South of Town, a 24 x 36” oil painting by Peyton is a classic example of a signature style; complete with Bluebonnets, Live Oaks, a small barn, a horse carriage trail, and semi-arid vegetation.  Peyton knows his role in the historical timeline of Texas Landscape painters and this prosperity allows his a certain freedom evident in his images.

Bluebonnets bookend the sides of the gravel path that snakes through the painting like a question mark- pulling your eye straight to the horizon line and over to the dominate Live Oak on the left side of the mid-ground.   To balance out the composition, Peyton places the wood paneled brown barn opposite of the ominous and mature tree.  The humbled hay hangar opens its wide doors showing a shadowed interior.  Deep obscurity hides straw bales and husbandry necessities. The roof peaks and pitches slant down to a diminutive corral- vacant of any animals.  Although the dirt trail shows signs of wear, the total intuitive emptiness of the location implies an abandoned site-a ranch hidden deep in the backwoods of Texas; a product of the times. 

Impressionistic bluebonnets are minimally detailed, allowing for assumptions of validity.  The official state flower of Texas is arranged in 7 neat patches of underbrush- each lining the trail to the barn. Spotted with yellow and pink flower variations, we see a deliberate attempt to establish geography, but not caring for a realistic rendition of regional Botany.  

The main players of this scenic sonata are the three Live Oaks that secure a stoic trifecta of Quercus fusiformis; each placed in strategic areas in the composition –far left, far right, and exact middle.

Accented with spare cactus and open skyline, Peyton’s work of art compels us to imagine ourselves in the typical barren desert-scape of the Southern United States- feeling the arid heat and listening to the sounds of crickets.

-By: Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art