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Full Still Life Session Seven – Block In for the Final Painting

Session Seven will be here on

Monday November 22nd

at

6PM UK time (10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern) Check your timezone here

What we’ll be doing

It’s time now to move on to the final painting!

So far, we’ve looked in detail at variopus aspects of the subject:L The values, a colour block in of a cropped down subject, some more detail and smaller forms on the rose and the cloth in some detail.

I want you to keep all your studies to hand now as we enter teh final stages of the workshop.

In this session, we’ll be doing a full colour block in of the whole subject on a 12 x 16 panel. This block in will be the first layer of our final painting.

What you’ll need

16 x 12 inch ampersand panel

Linseed oil and your solvent of choice

The same brushes you’ve used so far will be fine.

Tube paints:

  • Titanium white
  • Lead white
  • Ivory black
  • Raw Umber
  • Quinacridone Rose
  • Magenta
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Phthalo green
  • yellow ochre
  • bright yellow lake

Preparation

Please have the colours from session three and those from the additional mixing video mixed and ready to go before we start, so that we can get straight on with applying the paint as soon as we’ve roughed out the drawing.

You’ve already mixed all these colours at least once, so hopefully it won’t take too long to have them ready for the session!

Click here for the supplemental mixing video

Click here for an image of the palette with the Munsell numbers for each colour.

Munsell Notation of the Colours

Background:

  • 10YR 4/2
  • Netural value 4

Cloth:

  • 5PB 9/1
  • 10YR 4/2

Blue Diamond Rose:

  • 10P 8/2
  • 10P 7/2
  • 10P 5/6
  • 5RP 3/6
  • 5RP 2/6

Small rose:

  • 2.5Y 9/2
  • 2.5Y 5/4

Dark blue ginger jar:

The Munsell books don’t go as low as we need in value for the pot, so we get as close as we can. We can at least mix A lighter colour where the reflection of the cloth shows on the pot.

  • 10B 2/4

As before, we’ll mix the greens for the leaves on the fly.

Reference Photo

Click here for the reference pohoto for this session

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