Day 56
Well, I've been trying to get back into doing several paintings a week, but it's been difficult with intermittent distractions. However, I managed to paint this little family of ducks... The original is a bit brighter than this image - for some reason, images post a bit darker on Blogger.
Anyway, it was a single session work, working wet paint into wet paint, so I got to smoodge the background and feathers to my heart's content.
The palette was made up of the usual suspects: Burnt Sienna, French Ultramarine, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Alizirin Crimson, and Titanium White. As usual, I paintin on a prepared and dry tinted surface: the Burnt Sienna, Titanium White, mixed and blended together.
What I haven't mentioned in the past, is the type of oil medium I use. For the last several years I've been using linseed oil with a dryer in it. Commercially it's called "Drying Linseed Oil" put out by Winsor and Newton. If I need to make the drying time faster, I add a little English Turpentine.
Anyway, another farm animal tomorrow.
Cheers
Marianne
posted by Marianne | 7:47 PM
2 Comments:
Your paint handling on this is especially nice but you've made excellent color choices too. This reminds me a little of Landseer's work. For such a simple piece you've got some sophisticated thinking, or possibly just very good instincts, going into this.
Gee, thanks, Tom. :-)
I quite like Landseer's paintings. And I've always been a fan of dynamic light and shade: chiarscuro. A bit dutch masterish. I've always like their lighting and drama.
Thanks for stopping by, Tom.
Cheers
Marianne
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