OSWOA - Sunlit Buildings 1

I started two paintings with Doug Mays in the spring (see post on 07 May 2015) at which time he showed us how to change a painting from day time into night time.

This painting is the one which I decided would be kept as the one for the daytime and once I have it completed I will work on the other. 

Working with various shades of French ultramarine blue and burnt sienna, I put in the barn board texture with a dry brush.

I added a little alizarin crimson to get a an almost black colour and painted in the window sills on both buildings, under the eaves, the missing boards on the barn doors and where the tine had lifted on the roof.

Next I used a grey mix with the barn board colours but more to the brown and painted in the tin roof on the barns. I painted the rusted areas using pure burnt sienna.













I removed the tape from the window on the closest barn and painted the light area with raw sienna and added the dark colour to both windows.

With the darkest mixture I painted in some of the dark tree trunks and branches into the background forest.

With various mixtures of raw sienna, burnt sienna, French ultramarine blue, Antwerp blue and aureolin the greens and yellows of the overgrown grasses, weeds and growies were added to the painting.

Lastly, the dirt pathways were added to the painting.

The OSWOA shown here is an original watercolour painting using Artist quality Winsor & Newton paint on 140lb.Arches 100% rag, acid free watercolour paper. It is priced at $40.00 and sold unframed.

If you would like more information about OSWOA please go to my post on 12 March 2010.