Tricolour Chair in Field

I brought along the tube of bismuth vanadate yellow (PY184) and squeezed it onto the palette on location. It felt like oil painting in a way, since oil painters have to squeeze the paint fresh when painting. I wanted to see what the paint could really do, and found this scene of a beige chair in the field at the end of Harley Street. The yellow paint went into most of the mixtures including the tan leaves and dull grass, the foliage, and the highlights on the chair which I embellished. Painting a scene like this is very difficult, you have to paint fast and not fuss around too much otherwise it turns into a mess pretty fast. I started with the tan colour in the forwground grass, careful to leave the shape of the chair, then daubed in the green grass and orange/brown leaves. The background was also painted in successive layers. Finally I added the magenta, yellow and blue to the chair to make it look better than it was in real life, which was a boring beige. I thought about making the chair tye-dyed, or space-themed like another dimension, but that would have been a little too wacky. Of course, painting a chair in a field is a little wacky anyways!

Tricolour Chair in Field, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, October 2023 (No. 3568b)