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C1604
"Into the Light at the Devil’s Elbow"
(Oregon Coast)
Oil on Canvas Panel
5" x 7"
Note: This work will be for sale via this blog for a few days only, as I
will be framing it and taking it off to one of my Galleries the next week or the week after.
After painting
the Oil Sketch in the previous entry and then a bite to eat, I followed the now
receding tide, and, at the same end of the beach as the morning’s sketch, I set
up on a flattish rock to paint into the light.
It was later than I wished, but I pressed on, nevertheless, and began to
fight the wind, and the glare off the water.
My wonderful sketching umbrella blew inside out more than once, so I
closed it down, and persevered; it’s a tough umbrella and none the worse for
its ordeal and I learned that there is a point where there is too much wind for
it; working without it made it more difficult in the glare of the Sun. I had more than one person taking photos of
me as I worked, and thanks to a chap who kindly emailed me his shots I include some
below … many thanks.
Note: The following
photographs are the copyright of M. Palmer ©2015.
You can work out
my sketching outfit from these photos, and can also see that it is early in the
work. The imprimatura is evident, in the
lower half of the painting, as is the drawing or block-in, and I am currently laying
in the sky. My waste bag is attached to
the tripod below my sketch box. I
normally have a very small brush cleaning tin (complete with a screen and lid)
hung off the tripod, as well, but with the windy conditions I either had it on
the barnacles near my right foot, or did not use it at all; it normally
contains safflower oil for the cleaning purposes. I did what I could until fed up with the wind
and the glare, and did about an hour of finishing off once I was back in the
studio.
Imprimatura: Venetian Red.
Drawing:
French Ultramarine.
The Pigments used were: Rublev Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Italian Burnt
Sienna, with Winsor & Newton Cerulean, Cobalt & French Ultramarine Blues,
Venetian Red, and Cremnitz & Titanium Whites.
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