Quick, quick sketch yesterday morning, view from my backyard. This was just color straightaway, would like to do it again with more time and start with a burnt sienna value study first. Maybe tomorrow.Also, used a limited palette: BU, pozzuoli red (its an earth red from Natural Pigments, close to eng red, or terra rosa), naples yellow, aurora yellow (think I read this is in the cobalt family), aliz crimson, smalt (Nat Pigments again, a historical blue based on glass, also think I read it was sometimes used for a base for more expensive ultramarines that were originally made with lapis), and prussian blue.
Felt a bit limited particularly mixing blues. The aurora yellow is not clean enough to make good bright greens. The smalt is lovely but compared to ultramarine, weak. Of course prussian isn't as strong as the thalos but only by a bit! So, this palette felt uneven.
outside
ReplyDeletei can feel the distance!
the strip of yellow field is yummy [is that the naples yellow?]
and the front yard [?] is sure blue green cool
love the dark under the bush-line
Nice light yellowish haze to clouds sweep to sky though i miss the deep ultra marine blue-blue in the heavens
whats the primary blue you used for the sky?
ps every time i click on the painting it DOES enlarge YAY! ... with the option of two leaps "closer-up"
Yeah, the pics are bigger! Yes did use the naples in yellow marshes with a touch of poz red.
ReplyDeleteLanded up using mostly prussian for the skies, with the smalt and a touch of aliz at the top. It is in the skies that I miss the pink ground. The smalt is usually a softer, smokier kind of ultramarine blue but on this day, it and I just were not connecting.