Bridge over Kentish Fields

Well week six of dark, overcast days rolls on, leaving me to work in limited time on studies inside.

 I started working from the sky down on this, over a burnt sienna oil prepared board which had dried for a few weeks.

I finished this the next day, as shown below. This one I'll either keep, or frame to send to a gallery exhibition.

Bedgebury Forest oil on board.

Another small oil on board, half of which I'd wiped down when I realised I was not concentrating and things had started to go ...... off, rather.

  So I grabbed an hour and finished this as the light faded away. I'm itching to go plein air painting again as soon as possible, however tomorrow rain is forecast once more.

Using a limited palette.

I used a picture from morguefile.com for this as I'm unable to get outside to paint right now. I had to guess at some of the colours and detailed areas, as the picture is pretty small on the chrome book sat away from the easel, but then that's fine since I'm not looking to exactly replicate the image anyway.

  I wanted something that would dry faster than using walnut oil for a medium, so I dug out the Winsor & Newton Griffin paints. Then to add to the complication of fast drying paints, I went with a limited palette of yellow ochre, cad yellow hue, permanent rose and cobalt blue hue, with titanium white of course.