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Stouts Hill Apples

September 18, 2018 By: Paul8 Comments


Stouts Hill Apples – oil on panel, 5 x 7 inches

The apples are everywhere at the moment.

We found these on a walk through the grounds of Stout’s Hill, and old Cotswolds country house that we live next to.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many apples in one place, and they’re falling early this year – the ground was covered with them. Some were very small and deep red (this variety) and there were also cookers and a few other types.

But these were the ones that caught my eye. I was at the absolute extreme of chroma in the deep reds – quinachridone rose and permanent orange mixed together. It’s a colour quite unlike a standard cadmium red, it sings.

Stout’s Hill is an interesting place. Stephen Fry went to school there, when it was run as a boarding school many years ago. Before that, it was the country house of a family. It’s just been bought, and is about to become the country house of a family again.

I’m hoping they won’t mind me straying onto their land for the odd apple to paint in the future!

This little painting is up for auction until 20th September at 10PM UK time.

Click here to see the auction and bid.

Best wishes,

Paul

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I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you along on
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    MSC says

    September 18, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    Hi Paul-
    Can you list the paints [company] you used, or the pigment numbers for the Q Rose and Perm Orange? Great painting!

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      Paul says

      September 18, 2018 at 3:30 pm

      Thanks πŸ™‚

      The paint is by Michael Harding. Quinacridone rose is PV19, permanent orange is PO 73, pyrrol.

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    Bronwen Quick says

    September 18, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    Oh, I think this is the most beautiful painting you have ever done Paul, and I think it’s the apple colours!!!!! Out of this world Paul!!

    I did an apple picture as well before I took your Munsell course and realize now I should have included Cadmium Red in my apples. My apples (I feel) are very good, but that little bit of Cadmium Red warmed your apples up enough to make my mouth water. Mine are very cool looking, but I was painting with Acrylics and this is a bit different than painting in oils. I have since changed back to oils. I like them a lot better. Can’t wait to see the next apple painting!

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    Bronwen Quick says

    September 18, 2018 at 3:51 pm

    Oh, I read your description again and you used Permanent Orange…don’t know where I got the Cad Red from!! I have some of Michael Harding’s Permanent Orange too, so that’s good!

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      Paul says

      September 18, 2018 at 3:58 pm

      Yes, ordinarily I would have used cad red. But lately I’ve dropped cad red entirely from my palette because I find it unnecessary. As long as I have quinacridone rose and permanent orange I can get higher chroma reds that the cad gave me anyway, and I have a much wider range (and also, as an added bonus, I don’t need to use alizarin, which fades to brown with time).

      If you’ve got the permanent orange already, get some of that quinacridone rose and see if you can out-do your cad red πŸ™‚

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    Ted Bunker says

    September 18, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    It’s the little reflected-light highlights that really makes it work.

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    Sophie Ploeg says

    September 20, 2018 at 2:25 pm

    looking just yummy and delicious, the apples and the paint! Wonderful work Paul.

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      Paul says

      September 20, 2018 at 4:16 pm

      Thanks very much Sophie πŸ™‚

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