Painting project
May 13, 2022
5 minutes
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ Paint from photographs
■ Formulate a concept
■ Use a limited palette
TONY’S TOP TIPS
• Don’t be tempted to skip the planning stages
• Make sure your pens have waterproof ink
• Use transparent colours to keep your linework visible
Last month, out of three possible views and pleased that I’d gone the extra mile (or in this case just 50 yards) to fi nd it, I chose the photo (left) I took from the gardener’s compost heap as the starting point for a commission to paint a local church as a gift from the congregation to the departing vicar. I also shared how I thought through what I wanted my painting to say and how best to go about achieving that.
Top of my to-do list was to create something that would hopefully
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