Tableau vivant painting figurative sun house old

Oil on hardboard 30" x 30" Please note this painting has been substantially re-worked. To see the latest version please look at the 17th July posting

This painting has taken me a while. Probably the most challenging I've done lately. The house is based on a lovely but very bad photograph I took of a house near my daughter's in Belgium (although I have changed the architecture of it - painter's licence I'm afraid). The figures were done from imagination with the help of magazine images for the card player (oh, and I snitched the watering can, but not the carrier, from a painting by David Ridgway). I am fairly satisfied with it. It has the mood I wanted. The saturated colours seemed to insist themselves upon me but in actual fact there is only yellow ochre in the grass as a pure saturated colour. Even the ultramarine windows have a touch of Indian red and burnt orange. So many titles went through my head but Tableau vivant seems to be just what it is. If you are not sure what Tableau vivant is then Google it. Wish you could see the painting full size. It's much better in the flesh than the digital image shows.