Night garden
painting landscape park garden night
Acrylic on board 24" x 24"
I have been in Belgium for a week at my daughter's and had a lovely time but it was good to get back to the paints today although I had no idea at all what I was going to work on. I just had this urge to work on colour and I decided just to "play" on a scrap piece of board but then the big "Italianate" painting sat there looking at me resentfully. To be honest it was still something of a disappointment to me although I had lots of nice comments and I thank you for those - but I just mixed some colour and got stuck in painting it over. I tried to make sure that each area of colour "sat easily" next to its neighbour as Charles Hawthorne advises us to do. I worried less about shape and form and in any case I had my composition done. I just had to work into it with new colour mixes.
What stayed in my mind all last week as far as the last painting was concerned was not so much the two figures but the purple and greeny background, so I mixed some more of that and used it as a base.
posted by Sheila Vaughan at 3:55 PM
6 Comments:
Nice work, Sheila. You've enhanced the mood and mystery, eliminated the non-essential and come up with a beautiful piece. The color relationships are mouth-watering.
Thanks for your encouragement Don. I'm finding that working on this bigger size is more liberating and feels like something I can "get my teeth into" as we say over here.
the first thing that struck me was how well the colours worked. the second was as Don said, you have enhanced the mystery. r.
Thanks Rahina, it's good to get your response. I am really trying to work hard on colour at the moment without sacrificing mood.
Wonderful color harmony.
Hi Diane, I was working with quite a limited palette and mixing paint quite thickly. Often with acrylics I'm drawn to work in washes of thin colour.
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