Restoration Project

Every now and then I decide to alter my palette as a one-off, to use colours I don't use often. It kind of shakes things up a bit as well as usefully delpeting those odd colours that I'm never really going to use often... or maybe make me reconsider the usefulness of some of those colours.

I chose this subject - found in a barn while walking near Chievely in Berkshire - because of its strong shapes. My collection of odd colours inludes a couple of vibrant oranges and orangey earth tones; here, I used Chrome Orange (hue), Pyrrole Orange and Indian Red. I thought they would work well for the different shades of rust. Continuing the odd colours theme, I picked out Phthalo Blue (red shade - I normally use the green shade) and Yellow Green. White is difficult to do without, so I included it, and there was some Rose Madder Quinacridone left on my palette, too, so that ended up in the picture as well.

Restoration Project

Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

£120

Double Cornet...

Cornet Rainbow; All That Jazz
both acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 cm

Two paintings, each with two views, of one cornet. All of them are from photographs, which is not ideal, but the cornet was rented and it went back when my son decided that he could oly cope with one instrument, and that guitar was that instrument. It was a lovely shiny cornet and I made a point of taking the photographs so that I might be able to paint it at a later date.

Treeshine

A further development of the idea kicked off by Avebury Roots, this is based on images from two locations in Berkshire.

Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

(I'll be taking this to the Reading Contemporary Art Fair.)

Scarpa!

After discovering the effectiveness of my "secondary"palette, I decided to reapply it. The subject was a largely monochromatic one (a bit like a portrait): my sturdy leather walking boots (which were made by Scarpa, and have been in my possession since January 1993).

Palette

When artists talk about palettes, they mean one of two things: either the thing they mix their colours on, or the range of colours that they use in a painting.

This post is about the colours.