Teapot, oils, 8 x 10

I painted the Teapot inspired by Juliette Aristides Classic Painting Atelier.
In Her book she describes a color temperature exercise that includes only three colors, Ultramairne, Burnt Sienna, and White. The idea is to use these three colors to develop a full range of warm and cool colors with varying degrees of value allowing form to be established.

I ll give you my thoughts kinda' bulleted with some observations-

I found most of the colors that I used, more towards the middle of the color string when mixed from both ends to the center creating a neutral color. Next most used colors were found one string from center, warmer or cooler, depending on what I needed-
As the painting progressed, I mixed more out of a puddle, same concept neutral in the middle, warm and cool to either side.

However, mixing the strings gave me the context to then mix from the puddle, and later in the painting, I relied more on visual memory for color and/or what was needed at the time to move the painting forward.

I found that I layered my cools and warms as needed, and that just happened based on the paint need at the time.

Drawing and composition:
Drawing is a little off and the comp. is sorta wacked, but it was a study and I went directly to paint- I am too impatient to make a drawing then paint over it- but that s a consideration for a major projects.
And there are parts of the painting I really like, ie the spout and lid.

Lighting: back lit, huge mistake.

Overall, it s a great exercise and I learned a lot from it- and discovered the endless variations reached from just three colors.

Hope you like the painting-
and it s
for sale-