Trying out different color combinations in glazing. It's difficult to decide in advance what colors will work well together to give the end result one is trying to achieve. I think this one worked quite well. Laura's comment got me thinking that I must remember to list the colors I use. For this one I used a light glaze of Raw Sienna and several glazes of brown madder and ultramarine blue. After glazing I painted in the landscape with brown madder mixed with paynes grey and used paynes grey neat for the dark bushes and splatters in the foreground.
I think it looks very special.
ReplyDeleteI agree--that dark pink glow is one I have seen at twilight; the scrubby dark shapes in the foreground are wonderful too, such great shapes!
ReplyDeleteAre you keeping a notebook of all your glazing color combinations and their results? You could sell copies to your admirers, including me! ;-)
Thank you Irina.
ReplyDeleteLaura: Good idea to start keeping a list of the color combinations. I have not done that and should have. I'm finding it quite difficult right now to come up with a number of different combinations.
You've captured the twilight glow very cleverly here. I find Payne's grey to be quite a tricky hue and I have shied away from using it, but you've shown how effective it can be in the right hands.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gillian. I don't often use Payne's grey but it can be useful to dull down the brightness of ultramarine blue to make a really nice sky color.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the excellent explanation of how you achieved this wonderfully mystic effect.
ReplyDeleteBarb, your getting this glazing technique really well, I never could do it, wonderful work.
ReplyDeleteThe painting looks so dreamy with your glazes, thanks for sharing the colors. I wish the tree to had life just like the surrounding atmosphere..just my thought:-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Padmaja. Actually, my class instructor said I should have had a tall cactus there instead of a tree since it is a desert scene. I agree.
ReplyDeleteVery luminous. I feels like twilight light in the southwestern part of the USA. Another winner!
ReplyDeleteLovely paintings Jean, I like the limited palette in your works.
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