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It’s nearly that time of year
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I always get the urge to paint autumn scenes around this time of year , it’s the changing light , colours of the trees and the general slowing down of nature that I think triggers the feeling.
Over the past few years our autumn seems to be changing and we aren’t getting as much colour as ten years or so back , but it’s there if you look for it .
I’ve noticed that I have painted a bramble hedge scene most autumns fir the past six or seven years, well if it’s a tradition better get on with it .
An imaginary scene, didn’t think about it very much and put the sketch together.
When it came adding the base colours I just mixed up the background colour as it seemed to fit what I wanted, no pre thoughts about it.
Then Started to add a bit more colour and detail, I started on the left for no particular reason it just seemed the way to go at the time .
When it came adding the base colours I just mixed up the background colour as it seemed to fit what I wanted, no pre thoughts about it.
Then Started to add a bit more colour and detail, I started on the left for no particular reason it just seemed the way to go at the time .
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It’s extremely poor light quality outside today , the larger photo was taken in daylight, the two on the easel as not in direct daylight. The vibrancy of the reds , crimson and yellow is not getting picked out so well with the camera , but it an aid to seeing how the painting is coming together. Even if I’m not posting my work as in progress I still take shorts after each change then look at the photos a while later, I’m often surprised at how a area is looking when I’ve had time away from the painting.
This afternoons efforts very enjoyable but such rubbish light it dims the enthusiasm a little.
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Thank you all for the kind and encouraging comments. I hadn’t planned a specific focal area Gerry I was just going to let it develop as I went along , very much like the colours I’ve put a base yellow on and then added several colours whist it’s wet so it paints it’s self so to speak.
Had a good half hour this afternoon in much better light thankfully, the first large pic is in natural light and the second is in direct sunlight I hope the colour show well when I post the photos , the last is on the easel.
More base colours to the leaves I decided to highlight then levels with yellow as when you work close you can moss the fine pencil lines .
