Painting from Memory

Class Work – Sketch from a photo only using your sketch. No photo. The takeaway is to train your brain to remember what’s important. It’s helpful for when you’re looking back and forth between your scene and your painting. The more you remember, the more you can put down without looking away. You’ll become a more efficient painter which is most important when painting “en plein air”, a term used for painting on site. It’s important to record the scene as fast as possible before the light changes. I completed the study in the thumbnails below first and was bored with the colors and decided to ramp up the chroma for the final.

Details

Time: 4 hrs

Surface: 5×7 acrylic primed 1/4″ hardboard

Palette: Limited (ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, hansa yellow and titanium white)