New Approaches to Colour
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ENERGISING PAINTING THROUGH NEW APPROACHES TO COLOUR
How less can mean much more.
The other week I caught up with my friend Jane Strother. Jane is a painter, teacher, mentor and someone who inspires. You can enjoy her work at Oxfordshire Art Weeks. Details below.
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 |
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| 4 |
Burnt Sienna |
Cobalt Blue |
White |
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| 5 |
Cadmium Yellow |
Payne’s Grey |
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| 6 |
Lemon Yellow |
Pale Grey |
Black |
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| 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 |
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.
