Cardrona Valley Painting – Sketch 1
This was a very early "colour sketch" that I did on textured paper.   It was deliberately quite rough, and I didn't feel that either the brushwork or colours were strong enough, so abandoned it quite early.  I could have used it as an under-painting, but I had achieved the results that I set out for, which was to see how the colours might work.  I felt that they didn't and decided to move on.  This was perhaps the first time that I had taken this approach of trying a quick sketch to explore stylistic issues of colour and brushwork.
(Oil on textured paper)

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