It's been twelve days since I last painted in watercolour. Ā Just too many things going…
Hartlip Church Tower 2
Tempting as it is to binge read my pile of new art instruction books, I do really need to test out some of my new art gear. Ā First up are the fineliner pens, which means I’m dashing and splashing for the first time. As a gentle introduction to this new direction, I thought I’d head to Hartlip Church as it’s one of those subjects that it’s hard to go wrong with. Ā I took my 5×7 inch hot pressed pad and my pens and didnāt know how many drawings I’d be doing. Ā Being too tired after one drawing would be a fail. Ā Two would probably meet expectations. Ā I actually ended up with three drawings and could easily have done more: the sketches were completed more quickly than expected.
I should probably explain how this colour selection works. Ā The spreadsheet was asked to pick one of 22 colours, all with equal probability. Ā It chose Prussian blue. Ā Then, from the 22 colours I eliminated all the blues (Prusssian, cerulean, French ultramarine, indigo, Windsor (green shade) and Payne’s grey). Ā This left 16 colours all given equal probabilities and the spreadsheet was asked to pick one. Ā It picked yellow ochre, so I eliminated the all five yellows, and from the remaining 11 colours the spreadsheet picked out Winsor violet. Ā The box where I’ve written in the subject doesn’t feed into any formulae but every time I enter in a different subject, a new set of colours is selected. Ā This was all done in an app called Numbers – if it was in Excel I could have incorporated a randomise button instead. Ā It’s also quite handy to have the subject filled in when I’m doing multiple paintings and I can take screenshots and keep track of which colours apply to each painting.
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