Hartlip Methodist Church

I started by heading for the Methodist church.  Despite doing many paintings of the CofE church, I’ve never attempted Hartlip’s other church.

I drew this one standing up by the side of the road.  I didn’t start with a pencil outline, instead going straight for the pens, although I admit I did start with a thin pen and went over some lines later with thicker pens.  I added lots of shadows with crosshatching but the most enjoyable bit was going over the really dark shapes at the end with the thickest pen, one that’s more like a paintbrush.  I think I ended up doing a pretty decent job.  There are some errors there but they’re the errors that you’ll only see if you compare the drawing to a photo, so I. Luke claim they’re the result of applying artistic license.

It’s not a great set of colours, looking like an analogous colour scheme with a blue, a green and a yellowy brown, all on the same side of the colour wheel with no red in sight.  On the other hand, I didn’t really need a red, so I don’t know why I’m complaining.  I used the blue and the green but screwed u0 and used raw sienna rather than raw umber.  I wasn’t concentrating enough.

Without red pigments in the colours, I struggled to get a decent looking colour for the shadows, which all ended up a bit muddy.  But otherwise, I think this turned out fine.  Decent drawing, decent use of the colours, some white highlights to keep things interesting and a suitably understated house in the background on the right.  A good start to the day.  This one’s up for sale.