Headed over the road to the Rose & Crown at Hartlip To order a lunchtime…
MB Farms, Stockbury
After drawing the pub, I wandered up the road to MB Farms, Stockbury’s village shop and the closest shop to those of us in Hartlip. MB Farms boasts a fantastic award winning butchers, where you’ll find Clive Anderson behind the counter. A lot of the frontage of the shop is black wooden boards and I quite fancied going to town with the colours rather than painting on a dull, dark neutral colour.
I started off with this drawing:
It’s a pretty poor drawing in my part. It was badly planned, with the bottom of the doorway missing (if I was going to focus on the doorway, why didn’t I go for portrait format?). And there’s something wrong with the perspective. The tapering brick shape to the left of the door looks like the wall of the shop (which it is) but it’s opposite shape on the right looks like it’s sticking out. A poor effort.
The computer picked me out these three colours:
With a warm red and a violet and a yellow from the opposite side of the colour wheel, this is a complementary colour scheme. I’d normally be quite happy with this but the door of the shop and the sign above it are green and there’s no way I can get a green from these three colours. Still, yellow ochre makes for a good brick colour and violet should be a good substitute for a shiny black, so there was some hope.
I ended up with a decent sky and brickwork and passable woodwork. It’s such a shame I couldn’t make any greens. This would have been a very different painting if I’d been given a yellow rather than either the blue or the violet. But in the end this has to go down as a flop. I did well with the colours I was given but the initial drawing was poor and I really needed some green.
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