EXPERIMENTATION: Oil Paint

As well as experimenting with the filming, I also began to experiment with working from my photographs (See Thursday 10 March post for these).
I experimented with oil paint on sketch paper. The painting is A5 and did not take much longer than an hour to create so it was a nice easy experiment.

Sketchbook page discussing the photograph and the materials used in the
experiment.

 I was pleased with this painting, as I feel it portrays the scene,
and even creates a sense of perspective with the back and foregrounds. 

I built up this painting in layers, building up the trees in raw umber, terre verte and yellow ochre. The traffic cone pictured was built up with a base layer of watered down ultramarine and raw umber mix, and the cadmium red was applied over the top. 

I decided I wanted to explore these photos more, working with the idea of a series, inspired by film stills.