Ominous words, those, and regrettably enough, accurate. If not to you, or to me, to someone. Poor swot.
Well, I'm going to go ahead and post the first WIP of my painting, which will be titled *deep breath* 'The Bridge of Lavertezzo over the River Verzasca.'
All right, here goes. The sketch was done with a .9 mm mechanical pencil over about five minutes, from a couple of different reference shots. I'm still kicking myself over not bringing a camera to Ticino when I went, but PTL, these things will happen. I'm sure I'll manage to be back there at some point.
*Clears throat*
Ahem!
The sky was done mainly with a knife-mixed concoction of titanium white and flake white, manganese blue, and cadmium yellow deep. You can see the streaky yellow bits in the sky. I'm going to go for a Delacroix feel with this baby. Those of you who've seen 'The Sea from Dieppe' will know what I'm talking about. And if you haven't, go look at it. I love that painting. The mountains were gently patted in with a flat number 12 natural bristle, and they involve olive green, sap green, a whole lotta yellow ochre, and a smadge of cadmium red deep.
The bridge is mainly unbleached titanium (something I'm sure is going to come in handy in this little venture, and the brush on the left side is olive green, yellow ochre, the merest hint of mars violet, and burnt umber. I'm going to go ahead and postulate that I'm going to use very little to no actual black in this painting, substituting Van Dyck brown instead (which is something I do pretty often).
Insofar as the composition goes, I'm taking reference from three photographs of this area, mostly for the rock formations, but I'm also drawing from memory. I'm going to go ahead and ignore the fact that this is a fairly active tourist spot, and paint it as though there were no such thing as electricity lines or backpackers.
I don't think you can really see the sketch, but if you can, you'll probably be about as pleased with the composition as I am.
Uh...Yes. I'm aware that it doesn't look like much yet, but those of you who've bollocksed about with oil will probably detect my next moves. Loving you, and Jesus!
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I didn't understand a word of that explination. But I will pretend to... just to sound intelligent, (and to parody a certain someone that we both know)
"Ahem... I think you should use red!"
Tx hunnybunches. It's most definitely helpful. I'm sure the final result is going to be stupendous!
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