The Artist - UK (2020-03)

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PRACTICAL

DEMONSTRATION Higger To r

 A view of

the scene

If you compare this

photograph with the  nished

painting it will be obvious how

many more colours I could see

by working on location

 STAGE ONE

Having pushed the easel legs  rmly into the ground and

tied the back of the stretcher support bar to my easel,

I lightly marked out my composition with a little blue – just

a rough guide. Next I applied a mix of cerulean blue with a

tiny touch of lemon yellow and lots of white, starting at the

top of the canvas and getting lighter as I worked down

 STAGE TWO

I began to  nd the colours for the

mountains in the background and then

the colour of the land below. It gets

easier to judge colours as you build the

painting up as you can compare them

with what you already have down and

adjust accordingly

t STAGE THREE

The next stage was to work on the

darker colours and the lighter grass

colours. I much prefer doing these

scenes in winter as I prefer not to have

greens, and I like the colours winter

o ers me. I do make sure that I’m

appropriately dressed

MATERIALS

� Large and small palette knife

� Deep stretched canvas 4040in

(101.5101.5cm)

� Wooden easel

� Tupperware containers for paint

� Rags

� Oil paint: titanium white, cobalt blue,

cadmium yellow, cadmium red, cerulean

blue, lemon yellow, alizarin crimson and

French ultramarine

� Folding picnic table used as a palette