The November challenge of 'Goed Gezien - Goed Bekeken' is about a triangle. A local artist (Ad Dekkers) found the triangle a shape he could not interact with and we are challenged or invited to try our best to do so.
Being a landscape painter I wanted to do something with that. The scene is imaginary and the triangles - I just painted around them.
For this painting I started wet - in - wet using a neutral background colour that could also help darkening the shadow parts. Using models I drew on the triangles and started painting in colour, but around the shapes. So the first background colour is still visible in the triangle shapes, a bit blurry as I painted wet - in - wet.
My first idea was to make it rain triangles, but then I would have to paint around many little shapes and the second layer still is partially wet - in - wet to make the sky look as a sky should be.
Only after the second layer dried I started painting on the dry paper, shaping the tree, the little building and some parts of the bushes and foreground.
This experiment was a nice experience and maybe I will use this idea again.
The information about the materials I have used, the size of my work and its availability can all be found in my Tumblr blog.
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