Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages
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| Southampton Cenotaph Autumn - WIP stages of the oil painting |
This composite photograph shows
progress in stages of a painting called 'Southampton Cenotaph
Autumn', created during September 2017, to highlight the season of
Autumn, or the fall. The dominant feature of the artwork is the grade
1 listed monument designed by Edwin Lutyens, as to be found in Watts
Park, Southampton, Hampshire.
The composition is based on one
photograph with people added for scale. The original photograph was
taken the previous year, just after Remembrance Sunday.
The first panel shows the initial
drawing, scaled up from the composite photograph of the location,
done with dark brown acrylic paint on an orange wash, or ground. The
second image now shows basic under-painting, done in acrylics, of the
basic colours and tones to be found in the scene. The colours are
also kept darker than the final finished colours, so that those final
colours have something to work against. In the third panel can be
seen progress made on the final oil painted layers, while the last
image shows the finished landscape painting of the monument in its
autumnal setting.
The final painting can be seen in
closer detail on this link.
