The dregs
Posted: January 21, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized 27 CommentsI used to be more fastidious about cleaning my palette but recently I’ve found that if I add some water to the dried sediment left from the last time I painted, I can get an interesting mix that I may want to use somewhere in my sketch. And since I often start by painting the sky, that mix makes some kind of warm or cool grey that might otherwise be hard to create from scratch. Today I painted out at Macdonald Farm in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. Those yellow buildings of the Poultry Complex have appeared often in my sketches but my favourite time to draw them is when they are half hidden in snow. Hope the chickens are keeping warm in there.
Very nice… you make the dregs look wonderful. Love the purple snow.
Thanks Ross!
I always learn from you, especially the randomness of things like the poles in the ground placed at different angles versus straight up and down. Love the yellow against the white snow, just like here…tee hee. Jacques
You can paint the markers in the sand. Is this a good winter in Florida or a cold one?
It is very warm for January in Florida. Brings more buyers of my art so I am smiling. J
Really like it Shari., the yellow building with the snow is lovely!
Thanks Tracey!
Very nice…love the sky
Thanks Sue!
exemplary car painting Sahri
dregs notwithstanding, you’ve avoided the “mud” that dwells on my palette
This is an interesting composition, in terms of values. I’m having a hard time discerning how I might have planed this with 3 greys, but in the end the yellow pops out the subject.
Fun to see, having been there and wrestled with values under your tutelage
It’s great to hear from you John. I haven’t seen your sketches in a long time but I hope you are getting out there, and hope that you are well. There wasn’t much contrast in this scene so the values are a little closer together than what I am used to painting.
Love your snow. Cold enough.
Yes, it is quite cold enough. HOpe to see you Sunday.
Very nice. I use a lot of dregs as well.
The dregs are the best Lee.
Wonderful composition with great control of values which creates a brilliant effect of light on the snow. I love your winter trees! This is a deceptively simple composition with much subtlety, particularly the diagonals in foreground and middleground which help to draw the viewer in. Beautiful!
Thanks so much Jeff. I bet you are sketching some beautiful snow scenes from you window these days.
Oh, that snow! You are a miracle maker!
You are so funny Dee. No miracles here, just lots of white stuff.
Lovely warm, winter scene.
Thanks so much Jane.
It is so lovely and fresh (the leftover grey for skies is lovely too). Thank yuou!
Thanks Lenore!
A lovely dance of warm and cool colors. and the warm sky ties it all together.
That is the good thing about using those dregs. The painting is more unified when you start that way. When I do an all blue sky I sometimes find that it doesn’t fit in.
Your snow is fantastic! By the way, any news about summer workshops?
Soon, soon Janice. We are approaching the end of January but still not there yet.