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Winter Roses Session Three – Colour Study, Orange Rose

The third live session will be here on:

Monday 25th January

at

6PM UK time (10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern)

What we’ll be Doing

In this session, we’ll do a second colour study, this time of the orange rose.

This rose is tricky! There’s a lot of copmplexity in it that we’ll need to simplify down as much as we can in order to create a sense of form.

Then we’ll carefully build the form back in until we feel we have a rose.

Here’s a video with the mixes for this session.

Please have these colours mixed and ready before the session starts.

What you’ll need

Surface: Prepare an 8 x 10 panel ahead of the session in exactly the same way as we began the other sessions: Lay on a couch of 50/50 linseed oil and solvent, paint over a light toner of raw umber/ivory black/white and then wipe the panel down till most of the oil is gone. The oil layer needs to be VERY thin!

Grid the panel up and draw in a line block in of the rose.

Brushes: The same brushes as you used in the other sessions will be fine. You’ll want mostly synthetic flats, about a half inch. A couple of soft, dry brushes will help with the blending.

Palette:

  • Titanium White
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Yellow ochre
  • Quinacridone rose
  • Tranparent red oxide
  • Raw umber
  • Ivory black
  • Phthalo green

(you might want the bright yellow lake too, just for the greens of the leaves)

Reference photos

Photo One

Photo Two (with a grid)

Photo Three – value only with a value scale, in case you want to practice that first – always a good idea!

Photo Four – the value version with a grid

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