Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Oils with Elaine.


This is in oils on paper.
Several years ago we spent a lovely holiday in southern France, west of Montpellier on a former vineyard, which had its own chapel alongside the farmhouse, now a series of gites. This is a painting of the chapel. I haven't finished yet, Elaine says: the leaves and branches on the upper left need more definition as does the building on the left. This is the tricky area of under-defining and over-fiddling.

Our palette was restricted to a primary ( in my case, cerulean) and its complementary (orange) as well as white. This is in order to achieve some harmony of colour.


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