I saw this scene behind the Commission House near the Palace a couple years ago and could not get it out of my mind. The Rudbeckia were HUGE.
I am a watercolorist that occasionally does an oil painting. But I really want to learn to paint in oils. I can do it but it takes me forever to do a painting.
This is the first oil I've done using this technique and has totally changed how I will approach an oil from now on.
I've started with very very thin paint to sketch out the scene. Then - this part is the odd part - I start blocking in with the opposite color on the color wheel.
Where green is going to be I'm painting red, where yellow, purple.
Then I start putting the local - or real colors.
Why do it? Using
contrasting colors makes the composition dramatic
and more interesting.
Slowly the colors are building up.
Finished I think!
Decided not quite
toned down the flowers in the back and bumped up color on the Rudbeckia..... NOW it's finished!!
I did a little video on youtube
here is the
Link.
Just Arrived! Delias Thompson
