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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI was standing in front of Hillside in Provence a painting by Paul Cezanne for some time. He\u2019d painted this between 1890 – 2 in Aix-en-Provence. I was mesmerised the colours he\u2019d used, applied in tiny blocks.* A palette of colours to which I would not naturally gravitate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back in the studio I assembled what I thought would be the colours he might have used. And had a go, making three studies, oil on paper each 4 x 6 inches. The results were not that bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I must now try this out at scale. And having had seven days in Crete three months puts me in the mind of a Mediterranean palette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. The colours? Well my selection was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cadmium Orange, French Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Yellow Ochre, White, Emerald and Viridian Green, Sap Green, Chromium Oxide (green).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sennelier the artists\u2019 colourmen who supplied Cezanne\u2019s paints actually list his palette in this post <link>. I have emboldened my picks where they appear in Sennelier\u2019s list. I was not far out. I over did the greens, but I give myself half a point for Cadmium Orange, Cezanne used Vermillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *short brush strokes, a technique encouraged in Cezanne by his friend Camille Pizarro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With thanks to GWA member Tim Baynes for this article on a technique inspired by Cezanne. Wandering round…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,17],"tags":[40,38],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","category-artist-inspiration","category-techniques","tag-cezannne","tag-tim-baynes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cezanne-Experiement-2.jpg\")
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