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Afternoon Stroll - The story behind the painting.

16/5/2016

The play of light inspired me to paint Afternoon Stroll, a picture of Main Beach, Gold Coast, Queensland. I love the light coming through the dunes from the evening sun casting long shadows on the sand and distant salt mist from the ocean giving a sense of distance. The couple walking alone down the beach are delightfully lost in each others company, walking through the receding tide. The light on the lifesavers flags, just before the end of their stint for the day was a favourite and rewarding area to paint.

My pallet consisted of the following colours French Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow pale, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Scarlet, Rose Madder Genuine, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, and Titanium White.

If you have any comments or questions feel free to ask, I would love to hear from you :-)

The Hay Bale - The story behind the painting.

10/5/2016

The Hay Bale is based loosely on a photograph from our holiday to Yamba in January. I loved the way the light fell on the cattle. I did however take a number of artistic choices to improve it (I Think!) I tidied up the field and tried to get a greater feel of fields in the distance. I felt a change of breed was required for the cattle, so the Murray Grey looking cows became Herefords. I enjoyed this challenge of making a composition I love from a photo that I could see the potential, but would not on its own right make a painting. I had great fun arranging the elements in this piece, even the trees and the grass. I hope I have made something that you love too.

My palette consisted of the following colours, French Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Indian Yellow, Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow pale, Cadmium Scarlet, Rose Madder Genuine, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Viridian and Titanium White.

If you have any comments or questions feel free to ask, I would love to hear from you :-)

Happy Days - The story behind the painting.

3/5/2016

Happy Days, is a tall narrow painting, that to be quite honest, I just could not resist painting. It is from a small section of a photograph I took on the Gold Coast. Although not my usual subject matter, I loved the bright yellow bouy sitting on the water, I love the clean edged reflections, and the light from the water reflected back up onto the bouy. I had a lot of fun expressing these qualities in the painting, I decided first on a composition and format of tall and thin with the Yellow bouy sitting near the top, I decided to paint the areas of the water as patches of flat colour, and to warm and darken the blues as they move down the painting. This was to give a sense of recession on the surface of the water. However I decided to paint the tonal structure of the bouy with soft transitions to give it is shape, and to reflect these soft transitions in the yellow reflections, while maintaining a hard edge with the flat colour of the blues. I like the look this has achieved, and I cannot help but smile when I look at this picture, it makes me happy, I hope it makes you happy to.
Thank you for reading the story of this painting!

I used the following colours - French ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Burnt Sienna, and Titanium White.

If you have any comments or questions feel free to ask, I would love to hear from you :-)

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