THE COLOUR OF LANDSCAPE: 3 RD OF 4
Study after Seago, oil on board, 12x16in (30.5x40.5cm). A simple direct sky, a Norfolk Painting School study
Summer landscapes are, to my mind, fundamentally challenging, because if the weather’s great to be out in, its unlikely to have an interesting and moody sky to paint. In addition to this, once you get below the horizon you’ll have nothing of that spare abstraction of a winter landscape. Full tees, billowing hedges and bucolic landscapes are visually complex, so you need to make the sky work much harder, and the landscape less complex, and that’s quite a balancing act.