Acrylic on Canvas, 9 inches by 12 inches.  This is the first of several paintings that I did in an online course of Will Kemp’s, Basic Acrylics course.  It’s a seven lesson course that involves working along with Will through a series of paintings that are the basis for acrylic painting.

In the 3rd lesson, Classical Painting Techniques, we used a very simple palette of ultramarine blue, Titanium white, burnt umber, permanent alizarin crimson, and cadmium yellow light.  After painting a ground of yellow ochre and white, and a touch of water, the painting began by drawing the scene onto the canvas using a .5mm pencil.  Using burnt umber darks were added to the painting, followed by lights. This was followed by putting on blues, and greens, followed by glazing using a watered alizarin crimson here and there on the painting.  More details followed this stage.  Here are some of the images showing the progress of the painting.