Back to oils! For this week we're going back to painting with oils, but we're going to ease into it! We're going to use a variation of a Zorn palette, where we replace the saturation accent that is available through the use of cad red with an earth red. My choice is Terra Rosa, but any red ochre is totally fine, so mars red, Indian red, Venetian red they're all good! Granted there are small differences between them but what we're trying to do by using an earth red is to produce a far more harmonious tonal palette, albeit a less saturated one. So our aim for this week, where we welcome back our lovely oil paint, is to push that palette as much as we can and explore the possibilities that are available to us. Today we're painting awesome fellow painter Tom Croft @tomcroftartist (who is promoting a wonderful initiative so please be sure to check it out #portraitsfornhsheroes ), and we're taking full advantage of the idea of distortion. By distortion I don't mean representing someone in a cool style, I mean the manipulation of form and color to exalt moments in our perception that move us. It's about giving into the stimulus provided by the manner in which we perceive nature, and finding practical ways to express this with clarity in paint. For this week we're going to be recording a small palette (or let's call it mixing area) right next to the painting, so be sure to check our YouTube channel if you're interested in seeing the palette alongside the painting.
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