These paintings are 8" x 8" on archival Amerpersand gesso board. The objective of a colorist approach to painting objects in light is simply to see and recreate the color of light. The color of an object is different in light and shadow and you must practice seeing and mixing all the nuances. Lee Boynton taught me to use a larger palette to accomplish this because, although you can mix a color wheel's worth of color with just a few tubes of paint, the purity of the hues is most intense in the many colors straight from the tube in a larger palette. The paint is applied thickly and confidently...well, at least it is supposed to look like I was confident. Some days I am definitely more confident and energetic than other days, and it does show in the finished paintings.
Ideally, I would paint a still life outside in the sunlight (like the middle one), but that is not always possible, so I have a strong daylight lightbulb light for studio still lifes.
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