This was a commission picked up during my tour of Rutland and Leicestershire in September when it was unusually hot. The photograph you can see was taken from standing on top of a neighbors wall over the road, which was really the only suitable place to take it. The photo was taken on a cloudy day and I wanted to paint it as if the conditions were a bit brighter, enhancing the foliage and the brickwork. The sky was painted with a wash of Cerulean blue, introducing some yellow ochre towards the horizon with a few clouds mixing paynes gray with ultramarine and a dash of crimson.I then worked from the distance to foreground. Sap green and crimson being predominantly used for the foliage, yellow ochre and burnt sienna for the brickwork. The darker accents were added using a mixture of paynes gray and ultramarine.
Very pleased with the finished result.
This is what my customer said:
"...Have kept forgetting to thank you very much for the house painting, safely
received on schedule and now at our local gallery for framing. It is a
lovely piece of work and will give us all a lot of pleasure..."
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