Back onto my series of Hartlip paintings with a bit of a clunker. Starting colours…
Hartlip Village Hall
Next I wandered over to the village hall and found a comfortable place to sit and draw. I might have put the village hall slightly too high on the page and ended up showing too much of the boring car park when I could have shown more of the sky instead. It’s also a bit awkward that the front of the building is in shadow: maybe I should have come at a different time of day. But otherwise the drawing wasn’t too bad. I think I’m making good use of the variety of different thicknesses of pen available to me.
And now the exciting bit. When I got home, the computer chose these colours for me:
French ultramarine and raw umber again but the sap green has been replaced with violet. I’m effectively stuck with using the violet as my red and the raw umber as a yellow. Some of the colours in this one will be interesting.
This ended up coming out a lot better than I thought it would. I got some passable greens and made use of the purple in the roofs. I was getting a bit frustrated with the hot pressed paper: paint seems to float in the top, reluctant to soak in. Maybe I’ll switch to cold pressed when I’ve finished with this pad of paper. One thing I did try here was charging in more colour, dry into wet. You can see where I’ve dropped some blue into those purple roofs. Where I struggled a bit with this one was again in coming up with a good neutral colour: the colours still look muddy. It’s not great look to the front of the building.
This one’s not going in the shop window.
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