Nature doesn’t get it wrong…

‘Rolling Green Hills Flanked the Road As We Departed’, Jane McKay, 80x120cm, 2010

Art Inspiration 9 – Colours from the Landscape

Nature doesn’t get it wrong so taking your colour palette from the landscape will give you a good basis for starting a painting. If you get the colours working together a large proportion of the problems are solved in your painting. A common mistake painters make is to use paints straight out of the tube, in all their glorious brightness. I love bright colours but they don’t all work well together. The colours need to be considered and a colour palette for the work thought through. See Art Inspiration Idea 9 for more details.