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Aug 5, 2014
Media: Oil Sketch on Ampersand Gesso Panel
Size: 5x7 in
Last November after leaving Bandon, Oregon where I'd
been painting for a couple of weeks I drifted north and found a clearing in the
National Forest up in the Coast Range, and a few miles inland from Cape
Perpetua; here I spent a couple of days. One morning I saw this wonderful pink
cloudscape and put it down while it was fresh in my mind. It's always worth turning to the sky opposite
from where the Sun I rising or setting; you may just see the Moon doing the
opposite of the Sun, as well as catching some colour schemes not seen in any
other way. I have seen similar morning
clouds before, both before and shortly after the sun rises, and these wonderful
soft clouds fill the sky and seem to promise, and usually does, a fine day;
this day was no exception. This work is
a Study and as such I could have left
the forested mountains out, but I added them so that there would be an anchor
to show where the clouds were in relation to the ground and to remind me that
this was in the Oregon Coast Range and a few miles from the Sea; I didn't
actually have a view, but only glimpses of the mountains and the Sea through
the grove of Red Alders. I've always
been good at painting my skies in Watercolour, but since I never liked working
outdoors in that medium I never did a series of cloud studies, as Constable did
throughout his life; with these small Oils I expect there to be more to
come. I reckon Constable would have
taken photos for reference material as well as his small sky studies ... yes, he
would have ... don't argue! Over the imprimatura of Venetian Red I used the
following pigments, Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre & Titanium White
(all by Winsor & Newton), as well as Caput Mortuum (by Schmincke), a lovely
purply Earth Red.
Last November after leaving Bandon, Oregon where I'd
been painting for a couple of weeks I drifted north and found a clearing in the
National Forest up in the Coast Range, and a few miles inland from Cape
Perpetua; here I spent a couple of days. One morning I saw this wonderful pink
cloudscape and put it down while it was fresh in my mind. It's always worth turning to the sky opposite
from where the Sun I rising or setting; you may just see the Moon doing the
opposite of the Sun, as well as catching some colour schemes not seen in any
other way. I have seen similar morning
clouds before, both before and shortly after the sun rises, and these wonderful
soft clouds fill the sky and seem to promise, and usually does, a fine day;
this day was no exception. This work is
a Study and as such I could have left
the forested mountains out, but I added them so that there would be an anchor
to show where the clouds were in relation to the ground and to remind me that
this was in the Oregon Coast Range and a few miles from the Sea; I didn't
actually have a view, but only glimpses of the mountains and the Sea through
the grove of Red Alders. I've always
been good at painting my skies in Watercolour, but since I never liked working
outdoors in that medium I never did a series of cloud studies, as Constable did
throughout his life; with these small Oils I expect there to be more to
come. I reckon Constable would have
taken photos for reference material as well as his small sky studies ... yes, he
would have ... don't argue! Over the imprimatura of Venetian Red I used the
following pigments, Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre & Titanium White
(all by Winsor & Newton), as well as Caput Mortuum (by Schmincke), a lovely
purply Earth Red.
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