October colours 2 I wasn’t entirely happy with the last painting, although close up bits of it work really well – I think I need to simplify. I went back to the kind of thing I did in the last folded book where I used watercolour pencils in combination with the new handmade watercolours I’d bought making myself allow this clean simplicity which is easy to do on paper with these materials when the watercolour granulates and runs it does the most perfect things all by itself so I took this one as my preparatory drawing (it is a section of a painting) and worked off it in acrylic. there’s lots of texture because under the gesso is an old landscape painting I’d done about three years ago and decided to delete, so to speak. it’s 60 x 70 cm. various bits of it look like good starting points for more paintings using the watercolours for colour reference was interesting. I don’t mix the watercolours much because I bought a range of about 6 greens. now I have to think up a good title! the same day I put these final coats on two small paintings, 30 x 30 cm (that’s 12″ x 12″) also basing them on sections of the watercolour. I have this one to think about here’s a pretty crucial watercolour, mostly using the pencils, in a square Khadi paper sketch book (it’s stitched, flaps right open, which is very useful, and its spine is about and inch or two cm thick.) the marsh is a pretty good source of ideas too these simple shapes of creek and tide and reflection feeding into the pencil gestures as well as the textures of seaweed and stones on the mud something about paper standing in for light and windblown grass in stabbed lines and lines coming through so here is this one, as far as I’ve got it today, maybe it’s finished. a bit bigger, 60 x 82 cm  – perhaps “Wind through the Marrams” using a graphite stick that is water soluble thinking of these marks on paper with crayon and much scratching with the point of the pointy palette knife this pale pink reminds me of pink plaster under this was an abstract painting with lots of blues and I have allowed them to come back under the paint around the edges and in this corner now I feel I have a stronger language to explore, that’s related to landscape. we shall see. Post navigation October colourwalking from Kelling One Comment Love following the process – and always beautiful Norfolk scenery to remember and imagine and see in your paintings. xxx Reply Leave a ReplyCancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Love following the process – and always beautiful Norfolk scenery to remember and imagine and see in your paintings. xxx Reply