Cow Painting - Video part 2

In episode 2 of the cow painting videos, I put down a colour beginning. This is a fun technique that allows you to quickly cover the paper in a range of colours in a haphazard manner. This provides an array of random colours and textures, some of which may show through in the final painting. In general, I use colours that will suit the final stages e.g. blue for distant landscape, blues, yellows and greens for the grass. However, sometimes I will use an apparently inappropriate colour for a subject. Here, this is done with the sky, where I put yellow ochre down, to be over-painted later in blue. The idea is to allow some of the ochre to peak through here and there, or show through a semi-transparent over-layer to provide a sense of warmth to the sky.