This was the subject at this weeks Avon Valley Artists session. Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera! The turnout was better than most recent ones with 19 members present.
I have taken to photographing Kelston Round Hill, which is a famous landmark I can see from my home. It is high and visible for miles around. It changes with the weather almost day to day, and I've been using the changing views as my header on my Facebook page. I'll have to change it again as the snow has now disappeared! It was shrouded in mist this morning and looked very atmospheric with the tops of the trees just visible, but by the time I got around to getting the camera out the mist had vanished.
16" x 12" Waterford 140lb (300gsm) not
This was a very simple painting that took no more than 30 - 40 mins. I cropped it as you can see as I wanted the clump of trees to be the main feature and not be distracted by the mass of stuff at the forefront. Colours were very simple. A pale warm wash for the sky, very pale Quinacridone Rust (Graham PO48) and a mixture of Indigo and Prussian Blue for the trees , hedges etc. The scene looks almost black and white but I didn't want too dead a colour. Actually I think I struck lucky because I was looking at Yvonnes painting and asked what the very dark shade was she was using, which included some Prussian Blue. As the Daniel Smith Indigo is very black I wondered if mixing it with Prussian Blue (Graham PB27)would take away the `deadness'. I feel it helped. As for the snow I did add in places diluted Cerulean and also some of the Q.Rust - very, very, diluted.
I only used two brushes. An Escoda retractable Series 1214 Size 10 and a Rosemary retractable rigger, the 10 mainly for the sky and the rigger for the rest.