I wasn’t very good at painting and not that committed to improving. I would have…
Sunshine Through The Brambles
I got the idea for this one yesterday afternoon, staring out of the lounge window as Bradley Walsh was asking “What has the chaser put?” Not that anything in the sky was this colour. But there was a big jumble of branches in front of it.
I only used three colours today: French ultramarine, quinacridone magenta and (making its debut) Indian yellow. I was keen to try out a combination of three transparent primaries in the foreground, so didn’t bother with Earth colours. With those three colours, I wanted to combine them into a single brown or grey in some places and blend them together on the paper in others with individual tints showing, as if the branches were reflecting the colours in the sky.
The paper was treated with gesso the day before and I did loads of random scribbling in it using a palette knife. With this textural effect and a painted background that was random and abstract rather than planned and realistic, I like to think there’s a little bit of Ann Blockley in there.
I consider this to be a successful painting. It was picked out by my kid brother as a housewarming present.
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