von Antje | 23. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Technik, Zu verkaufen/Available
This is the fourth week in a row of me painting with a limited palette. I will introduce the current palette tomorrow. Why am I doing this at all though? I have already hinted at how my thinking about the function of neutrals has changed. Two of the three limited...
von Antje | 18. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Skizzen/Sketches, Zu verkaufen/Available
The true pain for any plein air painter is that she can never paint all the beautiful subjects which deserve to be painted. I felt this pain acutely yesterday on my paint-out in the Botanical Gardens in Hanover. They are part of the garden ensemble in Herrenhausen and...
von Antje | 17. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Technik
I have two weeks of painting with a reduced palette under my belt – what can I say about this approach so far? In the first week I used the Zorn palette adapted to watercolour: yellow ochre, alizarin crimson and ivory black, whereas the second week saw me using...
von Antje | 10. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Skizzen/Sketches
I was so enchanted with the limited colour choice I worked with last week that I have decided to stick with this principle of limiting myself for a while. This week I have locked my palette in with the following three pigments: yellow ochre, burnt sienna, cobalt blue....
von Antje | 3. Okt.. 2017 | Technik
This week, I am experimenting with Anders Zorn’s reduced palette. As an oil painter this would have me using four tubes of paint: titanium white, ivory black, alizarin crimson or cadmium red and yellow ochre. As a watercolourist, I am down to just three: ivory...
