Scottish colourist JD Fergusson was inspired by the French fauves. This painting hangs in the Tate Britain
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The Geographer, #Vermeer, 1669, Oil on canvas.
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Three Color Acrylic Figure Study
What started as an underpainting in acrylics for an oil painting turned into an acrylic painting. Three colors were used: buff Titanium, raw umber and a crimson which had cad red overtones
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Seated Wadjet, Egypt Late Period,664-332 BCEConte pencil
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Playing with a Vermeer inspired palette
The colors for the Vermeer palette are an approximation: white, yellow ochre, cad red light, viridian green, raw umber, ivory black, buff titanium.
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Vermeer and the Dutch Masters
A new exhibit recently opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC with 10 paintings by Vermeer and many others by his contemporaries. While the exhibit seeks to shed light on the Dutch contribution to genre painting, a paradigm shift, if you will, to capturing the ordinary moments of …
Conte pencil sketch at the National Gallery of Art
‘A Family Portrait’ (1756) by Francois Hubert Drouais
Having a go with a palette knife
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Light brings life to one of my paintings this morning.
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Back to painting – week two
Well, I worked on last week’s painting some more. The only addition to the palette was cadmium yellow light, but cadmium red light was used more than in the earlier version (see the previous post).
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