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I bought Haidee-Jo's book on the Kindle app - and I just don't get on with the app, or Kindle, at all; so I hope the book's not sold out, because I'm going to have to buy a copy of the real, paper, card, and printer's ink, thing. But I have read it, and join Alan in recommending it - always remembering, there are many ways to skin a cat (if that's anyone's idea of fun... not the cat's, obviously): i.e. there are other approaches to oils than H-J S's. But what you want to do is look at her actual work - that's really the only recommendation the book needs; she can transform the most apparently mundane of scenes, and that perhaps is the greatest skill in representational painting: you're bound to make some sort of impression on the viewer if you paint the Sphinx, or the Tower of London - even if it's not done very well. But to make a painting out of a corner of the garden, a greenhouse, a few discarded pots - you've got to be good to do that. What did Chardin say? "It doesn't matter what you paint, it's how you paint it." True - but that doesn't make it easy.We have it on offer currently Robert and Denise! https://www.painters-online.co.uk/store/products/oils/vibrant-oils/
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I’ve just seen your finished painting on the gallery Denise, a terrific example of Alan’s demo.....and for your first experience with oils, it’s excellent.
I’ve managed to almost finish, just the rigger work to do on the tree and hedge and to maybe calm down some of the blue here and there, it seems a bit too much.
Not a good photo either.
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Thanks Alan, I can't wait for it to arrive. I am all set to start something else but I thought, I should wait and have a read through the book first. I am so glad I followed your painting and was very surprised at all the very encouraging and good comments I received. Again Alan, thanks for your advice along the way.
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Here is my finished one Linda, I followed all the instructions, at the time I couldn't get quinacridone red but I did get quinacidone magenta.I have to be truthful, I don't know anything about colour charts, I see a colour and I try to make that colour as close as I can. Everything is all new learning for me so I will get around to looking and learning about a colour wheel. I really did try so hard to make a quinacridone red. I used white, qiunacridone magenta, cadmium red, the slightest hint of lemon yellow. That was for the slight pink cast on the snow. I had all the other colours to follow the instructions. I put it on the gallery the other day. I really loved using the oils even though I didn't really know what I was doing, the instructions were spot on. I also had grea
t advice from everyone.
t advice from everyone.
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Hi Linda, some of the colours I used where from Alan’s list in his demo but had to substitute one or two.
For the greys ....u. marine + b. umber with varying amounts of t. white.
R. Sienna + t. White
Naples yellow + t. White
Ultra marine pink + t. white
U marine pink + a little b. Umber + white makes a nice blush pink.
All Old Holland paints Linda.