Afternoon Light 8x10
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| ''Afternoon Light' by M Francis McCarthy, 8x10 Oil Painting on Wood Panel |
Today's painting is 'Afternoon Light' 8x10.
Our video features the progression of this painting from its early underpainting stages on up through the final finishing brushwork. Also featured is my usual rambling narration, so please check it out.
Today, I thought it might be nice to share with you my color palette and give you a list of the colors on it with the pigment suppliers.
Starting on the furthest right side with the lightest colors and moving counterclockwise to the darker colors, here is the list;
- Lead White/Titanium White 50-50 mix (Lead Wt -Windsor Newton, Titanium Wt -Gamblin).
- Hansa Yellow medium (Gamblin)
- Yellow Ocher (Daler Rowney Georgian)
- Transparent Earth Yellow (Gamblin)
- Raw Umber (Daler Rowney Georgian)
- Mike's Green (mixture of Hansa Yellow and Ivory Black)
- Permanent Orange (Gamblin)
- Perlene Red (Gamblin)
- Transparent Earth Red aka Burnt Sienna (Gamblin)
- Alizarin Crimson (Gamblin)
- Pthalo Green (Gamblin)
- Permanent Green Light (Gamblin)
- Dioxazine Purple (Gamblin)
- Cobalt Blue (Gamblin)
- Pthalo Blue (Gamblin)
- Ivory Black (Daler Rowney Georgian)
- Mike's Gray (mixture of Titanium White and Ivory Black)
As you can see I mainly use two different pigment suppliers, Gamblin and Daler Rowney (Georgian). I highly recommend Gamblin paints. I buy them from their sole supplier here in New Zealand Takapuna art. I've tried most of the oil paint brands currently available. For most pigments, Gamblin is the best value for money you can get. Their paints all have a high pigment load and minimal filler while being well priced.
Daler Rowney (Georgian) are student grade paints. Normally, I would not use student grade pigments but in the case of these particular pigments, they are all earth tones. Earth-based pigments tend to be very reasonable in cost and therefore there is no real quality difference between the cheaper Daler Rowney (Georgian) pigments and the Gamblin equivalents. However, there is a big cost difference. I buy the Daler Rowney (Georgian) colors in large 225 ml tubes also from Takapuna art.
I have talked about most of these colors in the past on my blog. If you're in a hurry you can do some searching. I think next week I will do a new and current breakdown of why I use the colors that I do and give some history as to my use of them, which colors are crucial and which colors are there for convenience or because I cannot mix them using primaries.
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Afternoon Light' 8x10; as I stated in the video, I did this painting about two years ago and I'm pretty happy with it.
Soon after doing this painting, I embarked upon the hundred days of Tonalism project which took up a good portion of 2015. Several things changed with my painting after doing the hundred days project and 'Afternoon Light' remains a good example of my process from that time.
To see more of my work, visit my site here
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| ''Afternoon Light' 8x10 (Detail 1) |
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| ''Afternoon Light' 8x10 (Detail 2) |