Today's acrylic painting of a section of the light sky caught in a roadside puddle. I started by painting over a previous painting with a cloudy wash. I quite like what shows through - but it's a bit of an eccentric taste. After a faint outline in black, I applied lemon yellow straight from the tube. I particularly wanted to work in brighter colours and catch the way that the yellow lines appeared red beneath the surface of the puddle. A sort of blue/yellow conversation developed - and I got lured away from my original intention by looking too closely at my reference photograph. |