Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Art break - part 3, the hills

I am feeling the smoothness of these hills!

I went for burnt sienna moving down into yellow ochre, as I wanted the hill colour to complement the fiery sky and I didn't want them too look too dark.
If it wouldn't make it too dark, I was considering making the hills purple/blue.

I was inspired to use these colours by paintings like "Dulle Griet" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder:


I am tempted to redo the sky, make it smoother... I need to think about it.

On the topic of the sky, there was one negative, some of the paint from the sky (from the palette) got on my hand, then on the canvas:

Red paint, you butt!

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