Silhouette

As you can see, this is another lighthouse but in water soluble oils. Reading a little more about oil painting, I tried some under painting with Payne's grey, Prussian blue, Cerulean blue and French Ultramarine Blue. (I hope I can remember the colors. I left my painting diary at home.)



Prussian blue and French Ultramarine make up most of the sky. Dioxazine purple was used to create the background land masses and create some dark relief in the foreground. The land mass on the right may be too purple.



The moon and it's location happened to be a whim. I wanted to show my wife how easy it was to remove the paint. Using a paper towel, I randomly wiped out a bit of paint in the cloud. It looked good enough to keep. Using a cotton towel, I rubbed out more relief in the clouds. A little Burnt Sienna was used to highlight the clouds and perk up the sky.



I may have used Burnt Umber, a red and some Cadmium Yellow to create the color of the roofs. For the lights I think I used Cad. Yellow, Yellow ochre and Burnt Sienna. A little scratching on the water's surface gave the impression of reflected moonlight.



The tower at one time was very blue and dark. (I cannot find a photo of that tower at this time. It was hideous.) The finished tower is a combination of most of the colors used in the rest of the painting. Using a fine, two inch brush, I blended both the tower and the sky.

Even though this is an oil painting, I used some watercolor methods. I guess I still like using water in my paints.

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