STAGE EIGHT
I next turned my attention to the water. There is always a temptation to overwork this. I find it’s better to completely wipe away areas you don’t like rather than keep trying to rectify them by layering on more pastel. This is possible with an acrylic underpainting. For the edge of the stream I used a mucky manure colour (Sennelier 61) and Rembrandt burnt umber. For the blue areas I used my trusty Unisons, blue/violet 8 and 9, reflecting the colours in the sky
has a BA and MPhil in music from Cambridge University and is a self-taught artist. She is also a part-time civil servant. Sally has exhibited several times with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and was a finalist in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2020 in which she painted Melanie Sykes, Bernardine Evaristo and Eddie Izzard. Her work was highly commended last year as part of the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021. www.sallyward-art.com and Instagram @sallywardart