The Artist - UK (2021-04)

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PRACTICAL

p STAGE ONE

After drawing the image on the textured

board, the image was underpainted with

Winsor & Newton acrylic cerulean blue hue,

gold ochre, yellow ochre, cadmium orange,

raw umber, cadmium red light and some

white

t STAGE TWO

I often use Rembrandt gold ochre 231.5 as the

undercoat for the sky – it helps to enhance

the glow of the golds and greys and give life

to the sky. It is also not too juicy and can be

laid on in a very thin layer

u STAGE THREE
Building the sky, I worked in some rough
strokes of colour using Schmincke vanadium
yellow light 008 M and permanent yellow 3
deep followed by Unison grey 10, quite thinly,
to allow for more layers to be added without
over clogging the work. If the golden horizon
feels too strong, some gentle dragging of
the greys, using my fingers, takes the steam
out of it. The horizon was drawn back with a
pastel pencil after the excess pastel had been
brushed off

PASTEL COLOURS USED TO PAINT THE SKY

Rembrandt

gold ochre

231.5

Schmincke

vanadium

yellow light

008 M

Schmincke

permanent

yellow 3

deep

Unison

blue

violet 14

Unison

blue

green

15

Unison

blue

green

earth 3

Unison

blue

green

earth 16

Unison

yellow

green

earth 2

Unison

additional

grey 48

Unison

grey 9

Unison

grey 3

Unison

additional

grey 11