It has been a very long week with little time to paint. I'm looking forward to some paint time this weekend. This little 5x7 painting is one of few efforts I was able to squeeze in. It was created using a limited palette in order to practice values. The sky is usually the lightest section in a landscape and the trees the darkest. With a limited palette of blue, red, yellow and white, the biggest challenge was mixing a dark that could represent believable trees. Ultramarine Blue and Perylene Red resulted in a dark purple that was acceptable for the trees and their reflections in the water. The result of my efforts was a useful practice with values and an attractive little purple landscape. I am going to continue to explore values and mixtures with a limited palette. I'm longing to purchase a tube of Chromatic Black, which I've heard is quite different than any other black. It is rumored to have transparency and mixing qualities like no other black, but that's a story for a future, yet unpainted effort. This painting has been sold, but you can find some of my other small landscape paintings here. Technorati tags:
5x7, American, Art, Art Notes, Blue, color, Color Study, Daily, Daily Painting, Green, Lake, Landscape, Landscape Painting, Lavender, Limited Palette, Miniature, Oil, oil painting, Original, Painting, Painting Practice, palette, Pond, Purple, Red, Reflection, Shoreline, Trees, Ultramarine Blue, Value Study, violet, Yellow
4 comments:
I just came 2 hours ago and didn't find this.This picture is exquisite
Wow - that's lovely! The variations of purple are wonderful.
More than "acceptable" to quote you,those trees are fabulous in that color
Thank you all! I appreciate your taking the time to comment.
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