Category: Experiment Reflections

1m x 1.5m stretched canvas. I made and stretched this canvas and primed with two layers of gesso plus a thin layer of blue acrylic paint. Oil and Liquin used on top of acrylic underpainting. White structure lines done in thinned oil paint w. turpentine. Painted outside in the woods on a still, sunny evening…… Continue reading Large Canvas Painting

<Painted enplein air at sunset standing here. With this experiment I tried bigger blocks of colour, a more limited and thought out colour palette, longer brushstrokes and less brushstrokes. The result is interesting I think! Less brushstrokes means the scene feels vast and emptier, with the space between marks very apparent. The dark green background…… Continue reading Oil and white charcoal experiment reflection

White tape experiment done en plein air in oils with acrylic an gesso primed paper. Painted on cloudy day in afternoon. White tape applied before the canvas was primed with the green gesso + acrylic. Underpainting and colours Colours are less vibrant in white experiment than on the dark grey background on canvas below. I…… Continue reading Comparing recent experiments

Oil w/ Liquin on paper, primed with acrylics. Painted in one sitting in the woods. The white tape reveals the flatness of the paper. It looks disjointed with the rest of the painting. I think the problem is not that the tape lines are white, but that they are a different colour to the background…… Continue reading White tape lines don’t work! Experiment Reflection

This is the first test I did in oil paints outside and I’m surprised at how different the outcome is from acrylic paintings outside. I was painting a clearing of trees in a woodland, with big Rhododendron bushes underneath the clearing. It was a cloudy day just before midday. The process of the painting is…… Continue reading First oil painting outside reflections

Since I had these two tests on my wall I thought it was worthwhile adding structures to them. The first one I did on the left, I used white charcoal to map out the shape using three point perspective and then went over the white with black ink. It was the first time I decided…… Continue reading Adding structures to paintings

Experiment to try out blocking colours into my painting. Using acrylics on primed gesso+acrylic paper. This is the photograph I used for the experiment:Chosen because of the arching trees reaching to the sky and the glowy sunset colours touching the tops of the trees. I did a sketch in charcoal pencils, firstly in white to…… Continue reading Sketchbook Experiment Process

After drawing some structures in the woods in a sketchbook, I was still struggling with using the three point perspective to get the shapes I wanted. So I decided to do some more practices digitally – where I could extend the drawing off the edges of the photograph, and figure out the method more. This…… Continue reading Digital Structures