Nocturne Notes
Phil Starke
Views from The Artist’s Road
Night Journey 20 x 24″ Oil © Phil Starke
In our fascination with how the eye sees, and translates the planet all over us to our brains, we have identified it especially fascinating to analyze how the eye sees at evening. Look for for the phrases “Nocturnes” and “Vision” in the research bar to go through lots of intriguing content about the science of seeing at evening and the art of portray at evening, or, download our book, Nocturnes – A Primer on Night Painting.
We’ve questioned some of our favourite artists to exhibit us illustrations of their Nocturne get the job done and to inform us a minor bit about their procedures. We are starting up with Phil Starke – https://philstarkestudio.com, a consummate artist and educator. He sent us the picture over and wrote to us about painting at night time:
“When I paint outside, I use a couple of clamp lights, one particular on the palette and a single on the canvas. My palette is Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Pthalo Blue and Ultramarine Blue. Moonlight is a neat bluish-inexperienced or blue-violet and the shadows are hotter, additional of a muted, dark burnt sienna.
My paintings outside at night time are tiny basic colour scientific tests to get an idea of the values and color. The studio paintings are composed from sketches and shots with the similar palette.
Night paintings are pretty substantially benefit paintings with great light and heat shadows.”
Examine additional about Phil Starke in our “Voices of Experience” short article from 2011.

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