glesni dyfroedd
furnace summer cloud
oil on canvas, 56 cms x 51 cms
Oil on board study. Some colours will be used as colour contexts, some for colour textures and some for glazes. Method notes.
Photographic space can be very unlike our experience of space, so I often adjust my photos to get closer to the experience. Here, I saw texture-planes not expressed by my 22mm lense. This sketch is one of several that set out those planes as a reminder for when I came to adjust the photos digitally. The adjusted space was then used for the painting.
• Image editing software usually calls such manipulations 'distortions', quietly reinforcing the mistake of regarding photographs as a touchstone of 'undistorted' visual truth. But the touch stone is what you see for yourself.
CANVAS
acrylic wash
underpainting
darkest glazes
all field and some middle colours
