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Richard started with a pre-prepared pencil page of his sketchbook and no photograph or colour "clues". Quote: "If you take a photo back to where you took it, you will notice that the colours are very far from true". |
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He used a very limited pallet (I didn't note the colours but do remember that his reds were unusually pink/violet, despite the original subject's being pillar-box red). The important thing is that the painting works as a picture, not that it is technically representative. After wetting the paper, he applied very weak wet washes, many many times. At first he did not even check that the previous glaze was dry (so edges were all very soft) but as the demo progressed and sharper edges became important he took much more care (including occasional use of the drier). |
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.... and the final painting evoked one of the sadly now disappearing aspects of English rural life. |
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