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GIVE ME THE MOONLIGHT

7/27/2016

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It is never dark where I live so  although my main project was to paint at least 1 large oil, my secondary project was to attempt to paint moonlight.     
   Advance preparation is key.  For No1 I drew the house view first in daylight from the car, then set out my 4 colours (black , white, naples yellow and prussian blue). As dusk fell I used the red beam on my head torch to light up my kit with brief flicks onto dazzling white to see what actual colour I was using. However although it had stopped raining it was still too cloudy for the moon to show through and once dark everything was just completely black.
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Three oil sketches attempting to depict moonlight --1) No moon at Brisons Veor,2) Moon over the Brisons, 3) Moon over the Brisons v2
  Next night I had given up thoughts of moonlight, but spotted its reflection in the house window, so quickly did a watercolour postcard of Moonlight over the Brisons. I then launched into No2, a 20x 20 cm oil from the balcony before it clouded over again. I used the palette from the Brisons painting so ended up with french ultramarine by accident rather than prussian blue. The following night the sky cleared again so I did a bit more and an even smaller oil attempt -No 3.
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Two nights later the moon was out again, this time over Lands End. This attempt in pastel was a bit more successful. By having a distant lamp on in the room I could just about see my paper.
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Final tiny attempt in ink but I need time to study this subject more and how to depict darkness.
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