Another painting of Bute park. I decided to do some park landscapes, mainly because I went for a few walks in the park and partly because I needed a change from still-lifes.I originally wanted to do this painting an alla prima style but I wasn't happy with the initial results so I wiped it all off and started it again. The second time I did an under painting in raw umber and white and let that dry for a day or so before using colour in the over painting stage this worked very well.
Of course doing underpaintings does tend to make paintings take a bit longer so isn't that practical if one is trying to do a painting a day. That said of course I could have have used acrylics in the under painting which means you can work on the over painting fairly soon since acrylics dry quicker than oils. However I do prefer using oils even in the under painting stages.
No comments:
Post a Comment