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“Dimming of the Day” 20x24ins. Oil on Canvas £950
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A larger studio painting, worked up from a smaller sky study. I feel this worked well and I’ve learned a lot while working on it.
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It started with a fairly strange palette of quite unbalanced colours ie. an orange green, an orange red, a greenish blue, a warm violet and a cold blue. I didn’t use “central” colours at all untill the later stages when most of the painting was already established, so in the last stages, I hit it with a revised palette of each pure colour.
Keeping these in reserve until the later stages meant that I could tap the strength of each new colour to counterpoint the deliberately subdued larger areas.
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Hand Palette
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For those who have “An unusual interest in the construction of an oil painting” the palette was as follows- Scarlet Lake Extra, Old Holland Golden Green, Old Holland Bright Violet, Ultramarine, Titanium White. Later this was extended to include - Phthalocyanine Green (yellow), Cerulean Blue, Scheveningen Red deep, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Transparent Oxide Yellow Lake, Zinc White.
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The more transparent Zinc White was introduced to give cleaner tints and enable pure thin glazes to be applied in the later stages of this work.
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Table Palette
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