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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Well, back to painting after several months @washingtonstudioschool
This is a limited palette of buff titanium, yellow ochre, burned sienna, ultramarine blue, raw umber and cadmium red light as an accent color.
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Impromptu sketch of people and their dog in the park.
This is a pocket 5″ x 4″ pad.
John Singer Sargent Study of a seated man.
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Sketch of statue of US President Buchanan.
The statue is in Malcolm X/Meridian Park, Washington DC. At one time was considered the worst president the United States has ever had. That record has been broken. The sketch is done with charcoal pencil.
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