Posts Tagged ‘Bay Head’
A palette for painting the sea
Below is a photo of my palette of colors that I use outdoors. An artist can easily paint the shore with as little as *three pigments but I like using this prismatic based palette. The prismatic palette is one developed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was widely taught at the Art Students League. Dumond’s students such as Frank Reilly, Paul Strisik, and Arthur Maynard made this palette the foundation of their teaching the prism in nature. Maynard founded the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, NJ where the tradition of the prismatic palette continues to be taught. I’ve modified this palette by: adding Yellow ochre and Burnt Sienna. I also two oranges, one that heads toward yellow and one more toward red. I also use a Algiers blue by Robert doak as a replacement for Manganese blue. Doak’s blue is an excellent paint with great tinting strength and much less expensive than Manganese due to it’s scarcity.
* The three pigments that can be used are: Ultramarine blue, Alizarin crimson, and cad yellow light, along with Tit. white and ivory black. I will post a chart and elaborate on this in the next post.
An outdoor palette
Sailing on Twilight Lake
I recently participated in an art exhibit in Bay Head, NJ. I went down the previous week and did some plein air sketches at the beach and at Twilight Lake. I wanted to do a moonlight or nocturne scene so I basically just sketched in the profile of the trees and did the rest of the painting in studio. Framed in a custom painted dark blue rustic frame this painting is for sale. For price e-mail at: mikemalzone@gmail.com
Twilight Lake by moonlight, 8 x 10 oil on linen
