ENERGISING PAINTING THROUGH NEW APPROACHES TO COLOUR.
How less can mean much more.
…Over recent weeks my painting has been okay but just okay. I think one knows, inherently, when one is in the right place in terms of producing work that really stands out. The opposite is also apparent!
The other week I caught up with my friend Jane Strother. Jane is a painter, teacher, mentor and someone who inspires. Link
Seeing Jane put me in mind of some fiendish colour exercises she gave me, gave us, in one of her excellent online courses. (link here for you). It was in the context of painting painting with acrylics, taking landscape and moving through to abstraction. Working back through my notebooks I rediscovered these colour ideas. Very simple and this time around I worked them through in small 14 x 21 cm studies in oil paint on paper.
1
Ochre
Cadmium Red
Black
White
2
Ochre
Cadmium Rec
Indigo* Blue
White
3
Orange
Phthalo Blue
Black
4
Burnt Sienna
Cobalt Blue
White
5
Cadmium Yellow
Payne’s Grey
6
Lemon Yellow
Pale Grey
Black
These exercises can be tried with thick or thin paints, using a palette knife and scraping back and the idea was to do one simple landscape study for each
* I used Phthalo Blue inColor exercise #2
The results of these exercises, across a week, were invigorating and have enabled me to kickstart larger paintings using these reduced and uncomplicated pallets. Here they are listed above. You might should work through them then you can play tunes on them, like all good music.
Add this idea to your painting play list 😊
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