afternoon song

willie nelson precedent

archival record: figure: seated. posture: open. a guitar in hand. the figure plays. the myth does not typically play guitar. iconographic inventory: wide-brim hat. suspenders. frontier landscape. hay bales. barn structure. the rural west arrived fully assembled.
chromatic inventory: cobalt to slate (hat). chartreuse (hands). white (shirt). crimson to magenta (pants). burnt orange (boots. guitar body). cobalt blue (suspenders). background field: sustained teal dominating the full atmospheric register. ground plane: chromatic yellow ochre. sky: lavender to teal. shadow: deep violet.
the assigned palette of the american frontier is absent. the iconography is intact. the chromatic correction has been applied in full.

filed under: rogue colorist. chromatic subversion. chromatic gender critique. contemporary western painting. americana. figurative non-conformity.