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Douglas Carpenter: Artist
demonstrator
On the net painting
demonstration
Demonstrator to art
clubs & societies. A full demonstration on my own
developments in painting, covering methods of colour mixing.
Ways and means of applying paint with brushes and pallet
knifes, fingers.
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The Panel:
Plywood panels with artex
painted on, then stippled with a paint brush,
sand off rough bits leaving a good texture for
paint, then prime with acrylic pink/reddybrown
colour to add warmth to under painting (see bottom
of demo panel). I use panels up to 12" x 16" then I
prefer canvas because of weight. |
Under painting:
Stag two: lower of
the 2 drafts panels are just cerulean blue and burnt
umber, this establishes the paintings form, gives an
idea of balance and proportion, i.e. horizon line
not in center of painting like in top
draft! |
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The Finish
From the under
painting its a matter of building up the colours,
usually from dark to light, sometimes wet in wet, or
one may have to wait for the paint to dry then apply
details with finer brushes. Finally a couple of
coats of vanish to bring out the colours and protect
the surface |
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Finished painting 7" x 5" by
Douglas Carpenter |
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Go to
sketch book |
Techniques with brushes
and knives
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Paint brushes and
palette knives in use
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| Top two are
Keith Fenwick's specials, these brushes are great
for trees and foliage. Red handle brush, my water
colour mixing brush and good for grass flicks as
well as thatch roof texture. |
| Flat brush
(between to fine detail brushes) is synthetic
hair-good with acrylic paint. The lower fine brush
is called a rigger. Two white handles are normal hog
hair, one round the other flat. |
| Blue handle
another kind of synthetic Cotman 666 excellent for
bricks and the like, The brush below that, is top of
the range No 12 Kolinsky sable, very expensive,
wonderful with big watercolour washes especially the
sky. |
| No: 000
kolinsky (part worn) for ultra fine details. Two
more flat brushes (light handle) is synthetic- the
other hog hair, both good general work horses. |
| Palette
Knives:- smallest one for tree leaves - one by one
in impasto, middle knife for general character; on
paths, tree trunks plus highlight in clouds. Larger
is good paint mixer. |
| These are by
no means the full range of brushes available or
indeed that I use, but a fair selection, more than
adequate to paint most pictures. |
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Colours I prefer in painting
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Cadmium yellow
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Cadmium red
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Burnt sienna
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Ultramarine blue
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Sap green
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Raw sienna
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Alizarin red
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Burnt umber |
Cerulean blue
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Payne's gray
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Plus: Titanium White
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My Demonstration at Holland Art Society
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