Spent a few hours this morning putting on more colour on the chair – begin to feel it coming out of the grisaille now. I’m experiencing something quite strange here – the colours should be the same value as the grisaille – and when you get it right its like there is no colour because…
6″ x 6″, oil on canvas
oil on canvas 9″ x 12″ The white villages of Andalucia are incredibly picturesqe, brilliant white houses cascading down the mountains, their terracotta roofs glowing in the Mediterranean sun. My mother, sister and brother-in-law live in Jubrique, one such village, and we have been lucky enough to visit them there a couple of times in…
Another colour exercise. I have these cotton reel pictures sitting next to each other and they make an intersting block together with the differences in colour and positioning of the reels.
More work on the chair today. A little scared of rushing it. I am still sure I am not putting enough paint on the canvas. I’m not sure about the warmth on the closest arm – it seems a little too warm – daylight check required. This morning when I got to work I decided…
I worked on the chair tonight – I don’t know what came over me but I looked at it as it leant against the window and my palette was freshly loaded and lo and behold colour has been put on the canvas! I’m pretty sure that I am not putting enough paint on the canvas…
oil on canvas, 8″ x 10″I should stop trying to photograph work at night! Its a total lost cause! Still here is today’s still life and once again the colours are not quite right. The background is definitely not that dark! I think the lemon is much richer IRL. Another thing about painting at night…
The sun refused to cooperate today and was doing that really annoying “now I am shining, now I’m not” thing so today’s painting was from a photo I took when visiting my mother and sister where they live in southern Spain. Ronda is one of their nearest sizeable towns (they live in the isolated white…
I really wanted to go and paint plein aire today but I have too much to do at home (those horrible domestic things that get in the way of painting) so I stayed here but determined to at least try something new. This is the view off my back balcony to the neighbours house behind…
I knew I should never do it – I put black back on my palette and bang its all over the place! It makes it too easy to do darks and I had just got the hang of creating dark tones using other colours. Lesson for the coming days is to remember that black needs…
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