Comments on: The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: vivien

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:55:28 +0000

and it makes beauitiful deep dark forest greens or glowing maroons when mixed with Alizarin crimson too :>)

Interesting to see how you use it :>)

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: Marian Fortunati

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:24:07 +0000

Gotta match???

Man you ARE busy girl!!! See ya all weekend.

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: Ann

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:43:05 +0000

Wow. This is gorgeous and the limited palette really intrigues me. I was going to ask about the pale blues but then I see you already answered that above. Beautiful soft light in this and I love that path. Good luck with all your shows!

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: Jo Castillo

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:43:49 +0000

Very beautiful. It is good to try a limited palette once in a while. You pulled it off nicely. You will be busy, wish I could come see. Ah well, one of these years.

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: Timaree (freebird)

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:01:43 +0000

I think it was a great experiment and quite successful. This is a great picture. I knew it was California from the big tree.

Hope you have a wonderful and successful show.

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: Karen

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:54:52 +0000

Viridian can be overpowering and unnatural looking by itself, but when muted with a red family color it tones it down really nicely. I opted for burnt sienna rather than a pure cadmium red medium or dark because burnt sienna is more transparent and so is viridian. Together they form some really nice transparent darks upon which to layer more opaque paint. Do you see that light bluish background color that almost looks cerulean? It’s viridian and white!

Comment on The Red Barn - California Landscape Oil Painting by: annie

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:50:51 +0000

One of your great trees, Karen. And this wonderful glowing light coming from the side and permeating the whole landscape.

Another limited palette to amaze me. I have never used viridian, though I bought some because Vivien Blackburn mentioned it a lot on her blog–and I guess it is useful for her seascapes. So it is interesting to see how it is used here as a mixture.And since I hear a lot about burnt sienna and ultramarine mixtures, it’s fun to know about another color to mix with burnt sienna, Here are some landscape greens which can be so challenging to get for us beginners.
annie