Bungendore School of Art Workshop
The following are photos of stages in the painting of two demonstrations which the group joined in to paint at Bungendore School of Art on Saturday 30 April. The first painting is a farrier bending shoes and his dog watching from the shade of his truck. Scroll down or click on page 2 for the second painting.
The drawing is on a 1/4 sheet and some masking has been applied prior to first washes.
First washes create a warm underpaint emphasising the light cast from the left.
A second wash provides the grassy area warm to the front and cooling in the distance.
The truck colours and shapes are painted in one go allowing the shapes to merge. The shadow is painted in one pass allowing the brush to provide colour variation within the passage of paint.
Skin tones are varied to show the reflected light from the ground.
The shirt colour - a new colour to the limited pallette - has dabs of cool where the sky colour is cast down and a warm colour represents the reflected light from the ground.
Jeans and apron get a variety of strokes, dry brush and warm darks dropped in to the wet bluish shadow.
Horshoes and ground strokes help the composition along. The dog gets painted as simply as the other items. The sunlit ears get a brighter red.
A later look and few adjustments to wheel shadow, extra dabs on jeans, hat and hammer. Matted in squarish format, signed - "Farrier and his Dog"*.
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This second demonstration uses much the same colours as the "Farrier" with the clothing probably introducing new tube colours.
Again an underwash with warm to the left from where the light is cast. The purple blue privdes the distant horizon and sky.
Background trees are painted in three steps. Very distant cool shapes are wet in wet, middle ground has more definition and warmer colour, closest foliage begins in warm yellow with merging darks and has more edges.
Shadows applied while the masking is still in place.
Masking removed and first washes on the cows and horses allowing sunlight to glint on the flanks.
Clothing colours allowed to merge with the darks of the shaded sides of the horses.
A few more dabs to define shapes, a red band on the hat, and add three more legs! Cropped the figures closely with the mat to cut back on the complexity of the surroundings, signed - "Drovers and Herefords"
