Bottles and jars

This painting has been sold


Acrylic on wood 8" x 8"

Edward mentioned Morandi in the last post, so what do I do? I re-acquaint myself with M. Giorgio and the next news I'm getting the stone bottles out again. Really impressed with Morandi's ability to use very neutral colours but produce riveting pictures. What is even more surprising - and a serious learning point for me - is that my palette consisted of: cerulean blue; ultramarine; cobalt; yellow ochre; raw siena; raw umber; burnt umber; burnt siena; cobalt turquoise; aurolein yellow; dioxazine purple; cadmium red light and of course white (and I used them all). The learning point is, when people say "oh, she used a limited palette" it simply means you mixed a limited range of colours. It doesn't mean you only used a few colours to mix that range.
The other learning point is that often when I am working in acrylics I get to a stage where I say "it's not working, I'm going to switch to oils" but some voice whispers, no, stick with them. I've said it many times, I love the way you can "develop" an image with acrylics, letting it emerge from the board somehow.