Painting # 50 - Exercise 33: Using exaggerated colour: Expressionist landscape

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Exercise 33: Using exaggerated colour: Expressionist landscape

"Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 Small Paintings" by Mark Daniel Nelson; 

5 step-by-step directions with photos to guide you.

This exercise involves exaggerating the colours, as well as the shapes, found in nature. 

"Oversaturating or otherwise exaggerating the colours one sees will immediately make a painting appear more interpretive and thus more expressive."

Finished artwork:
Size:  ~ 6" x 6" 


















In Progress work and drawing:

Underpainting:

Paints: acrylics, student grade by:
by Liquitex Basics, Amsterdam, Grumbacher Academy,  Winsor & Newton Galeria 

• Cadmium red medium, colbalt blue, cadmium yellow light, ultramarine blue, unbleached titanium, yellow ochre, titanium white. 

 Brushes & Tools:

• #10 round,   3/4" flat brush for background

Surface or Support:  

• Mont Marte brand.  Medium-heavy canvas sheets, cut to size; fixed to a clipboard with masking tape, so no buckling or warping.