The Painting of "Carolina Spring 1"
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The Painting of “Carolina Spring 1”
This was such a fun painting to do. I really love working on 12x36” canvases - they are certainly one of my favorite sizes. I particularly like the proportion of 1:3. I always paint these so that they can be displayed horizontally or vertically, and sign it at a 45 degree angle in the corner so that my signature can be read clearly when displayed in either orientation.
Even though you are just seeing this video, this painting was done weeks ago and is already sold. I was trying to capture the feeling of Spring just beginning to come out here in North Carolina. Just a hint of red-orange blossoms and new yellow-green growth on a background of muted blues and greens.
I am utilizing a blue-green and red-orange complementary color combination for this painting. As always, I am using Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint. Here are the colors I used:
Benzimidazolone Yellow Light
Pyrrole Orange
Cadmium Red Medium Hue
Burnt Sienna
Cerulean Blue Deep
Cobalt Blue Hue
Jenkins Green
Cobalt Green
Cobalt Turquoise
Minty G (custom mixture)
Titanium White
While mixing the paint on the palette, I neutralized the green colors with the Cadmium Red Medium Hue and did likewise for the blues using the Pyrrole Orange. I was trying to have mostly a muted palette with just a few hints of bright yellow-green and red-orange that pop at my centers of interest. i was going for subtlety here, which is not always my intent.
You might notice that I tried a little something new with this video. Instead of overlaying sound over the video, I have just left the actual sounds of the studio. I probably won’t do this again moving forward because of copyright claims on the music in the video. Let me know what you think - do you like it better? Like the regular music overlay better? Let me know what you think.
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David
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