Santo Antônio de Lisboa, sea, June 2022

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Santo Antônio de Lisboa, sea, June 2022, oil on card, 26 x 27.7 cm - available

Very like Cezanne here.

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Praia Moçambique; Manganese blue and Viridian; advantages of larger scale

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Praia Moçambique, paths, oil on card, 29.7 x 27.5 cm - available

 

Praia Moçambique, paths- detail

Today I started using a tube of Manganese blue, a warm blue, i.e., slightly greenish. I see this colour has been discontinued for heath reasons and is now Manganese Blue hue. I also used Viridian, a dark, bluish green. Both are quite lovely, and slightly outside my comfort zone.

They are easier to mix than I had imagined, not bullying the other colours or staining the palette as, say, Phthalo Blue so notoriously does.

I have about another ten new colours to try, all from Winsor and Newton's artists range and I shall work through these over the next few weeks,

A big advantage of working on a larger scale is that one can experiment more with colour, including by cross-harching or scumbling for a vibrant effect, and one can vary the textures used more too. I shall grow larger in the next six months or so.

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Sambaqui

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Sambaqui, cloudy day, oil on card, 28 x 26 cm unavailable

 

Sambaqui, cloudy day- detail

 

 

Today I used Cobalt Green, a lovely dark coppery colour by Winsor and Newon; I mixed it with Kings Blue- a Harding colour. 

 The painting has a very conventional composition.

 

 

 

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Santinho, fields, sea

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Santinho, fields, sea, oil on card, 29.5 x 26.5 cm - available

 

 

Santinho, fields, sea - detail

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Sambaqui, June 6, 2022, morning

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 Sambaqui, June 6, 2022, morning, oil on card, 23.7 x 28 cm - available

 

Sambaqui, June 6, 2022, morning- detail

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Sambaqui, June 4, 2022

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Sambaqui, June 4, 2022, oil on card, 28 x 25.7 cm - available

 

 

Sambaqui, June 4, 2022- detail

 

 

 

 

 I'm using a new colour - Winsor and Newton's Cobalt Turquoise light- it mixes very happily, not bullying other colours in the mix. 

 

Seascapes are ideal for patiently trying new colours- you don't have too worry too much about drawing, or creatng forms.

 

 

 

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Tozeur, desert station, 2012

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Tozeur, desert station, 2012- oil on card, 12 x 13.5 cm

 

 

This was from the Tunisian trip ten years ago, and for some reason wasn't catalogued at the time. 

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