Friday 21 November 2014

Cheese Delivery


Cheese Delivery
Watercolour / Gouache
24 x 31cm



My latest painting, 'Cheese Delivery,' was challenge to paint because I decided to use a very restricted range of colours or, as James Gurney would say, a narrow colour gamut. My influence behind colour mixing was 'Saying Grace' by Norman Rockwell. I leant heavily on yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber and sepia throughout the whole process and only went to ultramarine, prussian blue and cadmium reds halfway through and even then they were always mixed with a brown.

Hopefully the whimsical story of the smelly cheese being delivered by an otter, with a peg on his nose, has come across in the finished painting. Nevertheless I had a lot of fun painting the crazed mice, especially the two young mice raiding the new cheese delivery.

By the way, Stenson (shop name) and Hartley (delivery van) are two surnames that feature in my family.

2 comments:

Angelsdoor * Penny said...

Chris,
This painting is amazing! Details abound... I love your color palette..
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season.
fondly,
Penny

Chris Dunn said...

Thank you Penny :)