North Yorkshire Artist Paul Blackwell gave DAC members a demonstration of oil landscapes on Monday 21st October at DAC’s monthly meeting.
Paul sketched a landscape in charcoal on a canvas in situ at Malham, in the Dales.
He took it back to his study and made some small colour sketches to work out how he wanted to approach the painting.
Although the sketch was quite detailed Paul began the demonstration by rubbing out most of the image with a clean cloth. There was enough of a sketch left on the canvas to guide the painting.
Paul laid various thin layers of oil – mixed with turps – to allow under painting colours to show through.
He explained that normally he would leave the oil to stand for several days to dry.