6. Snow Scene : Wardown Park
50.8cm x 40.3cm
Interactive Acrylic on Canvas
2010
£200
Rejected from Hertford Open 2012
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery "The Garden and Beyond" Andrew Naish one man show 12th - 19th October 2013
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery Christmas members show 28th November -December 24th 2016
Christmas comes but once a year, but to tell you the truth it sometimes feels more often. Approaching that time of year again, I felt the need to repeat the idea of a painted Christmas card fro Xmas 2010. With such a good archive of images from snowfall in 2009, (See painting 1), I decided once again to paint the snow in Wardown Park, Luton.
This was a fairly rapid piece and I utilised a technique that I had picked up from a Saroja French class at an NEC expo. The idea was to use strong areas of colour and build from these. Though the original had been an exercise in Acrylic ink, I used this as a jumping off point with my Atelier interactive acrylics. I thought having a under-painting in a strong colour would both help to further prime the canvas and hints of colour in the expanses of near white.
I painted around the edge of the thin canvas (and didn’t continue with the later layers) and so can still see these colours as the painting is unframed as I write this description.
So the sky was an orangy yellow colour, I think an unmixed “Jaune Brillant”; the mid tree section was a dark brown; and the snow at the bottom was a sky blue colour.
I find the image slightly too rushed; but my mother is quite keen – whose to argue.
Interactive Acrylic on Canvas
2010
£200
Rejected from Hertford Open 2012
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery "The Garden and Beyond" Andrew Naish one man show 12th - 19th October 2013
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery Christmas members show 28th November -December 24th 2016
Christmas comes but once a year, but to tell you the truth it sometimes feels more often. Approaching that time of year again, I felt the need to repeat the idea of a painted Christmas card fro Xmas 2010. With such a good archive of images from snowfall in 2009, (See painting 1), I decided once again to paint the snow in Wardown Park, Luton.
This was a fairly rapid piece and I utilised a technique that I had picked up from a Saroja French class at an NEC expo. The idea was to use strong areas of colour and build from these. Though the original had been an exercise in Acrylic ink, I used this as a jumping off point with my Atelier interactive acrylics. I thought having a under-painting in a strong colour would both help to further prime the canvas and hints of colour in the expanses of near white.
I painted around the edge of the thin canvas (and didn’t continue with the later layers) and so can still see these colours as the painting is unframed as I write this description.
So the sky was an orangy yellow colour, I think an unmixed “Jaune Brillant”; the mid tree section was a dark brown; and the snow at the bottom was a sky blue colour.
I find the image slightly too rushed; but my mother is quite keen – whose to argue.