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Oil Sketches, Oil studies, Outdoor Oil Painting, Plein Air, Colour Studies. |
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In common with a growing number of contemporary artists, observation, sketching and painting directly from nature is fundamental to my work.
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...There is far too much information in a landscape. If a landscape painting is to evoke some of the real experience then it cannot be made up or adequately recalled from memory. This is why sketches, studies and outdoor paintings are essential to modern landscape art.
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As with most of my work, this is a combination of outdoor and studio work. The initial image was composed and painted outdoors and then developed over a period of time. This two pronged approach gave me the chance to be more selective than I could have been if I’d tried to finish it on the spot. I was able to take a thin glaze of raw sienna over the surface of the sketch when it was dry to warm up the colour in places and highlight the brushwork.
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Photographs, pencil sketches and scribbled notes can all be invaluable aids to establishing an outdoor painting especially one of an evolving, mercurial image like fast moving clouds or dawn and sunset, or a rainbow.
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