{"id":1292,"date":"2025-07-22T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:26:42","slug":"energising-painting-with-new-colour-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/admin\/energising-painting-with-new-colour-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Energising Painting: New Colour Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How less can mean much<\/em> more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was demonstrating to the Guild the other evening. We discussed the use of colour. I had brought along together some interesting new approaches gained initially working with Jane Strother some fiendish colour exercises she gave me in one of her excellent online courses. (link here for you<\/a>). It was in the context of painting  painting with acrylics, taking landscape and moving through to abstraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working back through my notebooks I rediscovered these colour ideas. Very simple approaches and very recently time around I worked them through in small 14 x 21 cm studies in oil paint on paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idea 1<\/td>Ochre<\/td>Cadmium Red<\/td>Black <\/td>White<\/td><\/tr>
Idea 2<\/td>Ochre<\/td>Cadmium Rec<\/td>Indigo* Blue<\/td>White<\/td><\/tr>
Idea 3<\/td>Orange<\/td>Phthalo Blue<\/td>Black<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Idea 4<\/td>Burnt Sienna<\/td>Cobalt Blue<\/td>White<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Idea 5<\/td>Cadmium Yellow<\/td>Payne\u2019s Grey<\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Idea 6<\/td>Lemon Yellow<\/td> Pale Grey<\/td>Black<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
These exercises can be tried with thick or thin paints, oils or acrylics, using a brush or palette knife and scraping back and the idea was to do one simple landscape study for each<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n