Kind of a first for me, a Chinese-themed painting. A combination of imagination and a memory of the lanterns in London's Chinatown at Chinese New Year. Seeing as they are red (and therefore dark) they will be set against the darker areas of the painting to give them a chance to glow. As I want a soft dreamy look I have painted in the vast majority of the underpainting with a rag. Tomorrow I will give most of the painting a wash of desaturated blue apart from the warm areas of lights and hopefully make a start on the background too.
This is the tonal underpainting stage using my usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and applied with a rag.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
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