The Artist - UK (2021-04)

http://www.painters-online.co.uk artistApril 2021 27

You can watch Cheryl’s painting

come to life in this video:

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u STAGE SIX
The White Cliffs of Dover and surrounding coastline
are not really white. When chunks of chalk break
away the clean breaks look white, especially in
bright sunlight, but when a section of cliff tumbles
it takes with it topsoil and grassy vegetation, hence
it is quite normal to see patches of green half way
down the cliff face and streaks of brown mud
staining the chalk. To create the grainy solidity of
the rocks, I began with a fine layer of Faber-Castell
Polychromos Pastel walnut brown 177. The rough
surface of the primer was enhanced by the mark
making of the pastel

q FINISHED PAINTING

Ever Changing, pastel on primed mountboard, 193/4 3 351/2in

(50 3 90cm).

Finally I attempted to convey the thousands of pebbles.

Faber-Castell walnut brown was used as an undercoat,

followed by Schmincke brown ochre 32B and Schmincke

greenish umber 30D to indicate areas of sand. The pebbles

were a combination of most of the colours used in the rest

of the work, using scale and highlights to show distance and

contours. I thought rhythms, ebb and flow when doing this

t STAGE SEVEN

I constructed the

sections of rock in

stages, dragging the

underlying colours to

build the textures and

shadows of the surface

of the rock, finishing

with the highlights on

the facing edges

PASTEL COLOURS USED FOR THE ROCKS AND CLIFFS

Faber-Castell

walnut

brown 177

Schmincke

greenish

umber 30B

Schmincke

greenish

umber 30D

Schmincke

brown ochre

32B

Schmincke

mossy green

75B

Unison

grey 23

Schmincke

titanium

yellow 007M