{"id":6401,"date":"2016-10-09T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2016-10-09T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:55:38","slug":"geese-and-skies-and-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/blog\/2016\/10\/09\/geese-and-skies-and-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"geese and skies and paint"},"content":{"rendered":"

very slowly, this week I have got around to firing some of this new work. the wind was in the wrong direction all week – the kiln chimney duct comes out sideways from the shed’s gable end and the east wind blows straight down it, putting the flame out, or sending it underneath the kiln<\/p>\n

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so I packed the kiln but am only firing it today<\/p>\n

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as always, fingers crossed ….<\/p>\n

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I’m using the painterly chun glaze over slip and oxides again<\/p>\n

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and while the pots were out of the shed I’ve spent a couple of days painting, inspired by skies<\/p>\n

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full of geese<\/p>\n

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huge drama<\/p>\n

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and telegraph\/electricity poles<\/p>\n

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first the charcoal drawing, which is the key<\/p>\n

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to the whole thing<\/p>\n

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firstly a very small painting to try things out<\/p>\n

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then a bigger one, 81 x 62 cm<\/p>\n

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which ended up like this last night; I wanted to introduce more colour than in the small one, so there’s cobalt blue, burnt sienna, and then alazarin crimson, ultramarine and burnt umber in various mixtures<\/p>\n

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up early this morning to light the kiln at 5.30 am, the clouds had parted like curtains and there were all the stars, and not a breath of wind<\/p>\n

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a lot of lovely sparkling light later<\/p>\n

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the kiln was going a bit slowly, but the painting cantered on, by lunch time I had done most of it, and broken my\u00c2\u00a0palette knife<\/p>\n

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the painting looked like this<\/p>\n

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the top and bottom right hand corners needing most attention<\/p>\n

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top right – I have a huge palette knife I used for mixing oil with pigment back when I did enormous oil paintings<\/p>\n

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bottom right – which was\u00c2\u00a0in fact interesting, quite different to work with –<\/p>\n

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the finished painting – and I found mark-making with it and the brush and the brush handle point worked well, \u00c2\u00a0I \u00c2\u00a0put paint on with the palette knife and them work into it with both ends of the brush<\/p>\n

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I started the geese very dark<\/p>\n

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and worked into them with this brownish grey<\/p>\n

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top left – keeping them fairly vague<\/p>\n

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the last thing I wanted was a sub-Peter Scott.<\/p>\n

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now I must get a couple of palette knives and some more plywood. I have a nice linen canvas to work on tomorrow though.<\/p>\n

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