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JEREMY GALTON Breakfast, oil on board, 22x29cm Winner, Winsor & Newton Painting Award, RBA Annual Open Exhibition 2012
spent a day juggling about with objects then I spent the next morning drawing it, measuring it very carefully with a ruler. I used an HB
pencil straight on the board. “The MDF was primed with Winsor & Newton
Acrylic Gesso primer and then a coat of Yellow Ochre and Raw Umber acrylic to make a brownish ground. I prefer a neutral ground – paint does tend to shrink so then if a bit of it shows through, it doesn’t glare at you. “To get the colour, I mix up each little bit on the palette, hold the brush up to the bit that I
am painting and compare it until it is exactly the same. Some colours can take up to 15 minutes to mix, even just for a little 2mm brushstroke, but it is worth it. I don’t do any underpainting either; every patch of paint I put on the board, that’s it – I never touch it again. “The painting was made entirely with sable
brushes and a mixture of Winsor & Newton and Michael Harding oils. French Ultramarine is the only blue I use, while Winsor Violet is very useful to add to greens or reds.”
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JEREMY’S TIPS • Jeremy uses a mixture
of fluorescent lights and spotlights for his still life set ups and tries to avoid daylight at all costs: “The light is bluer and it mucks everything up.” • Paint on a neutral ground: “If you paint on a white ground, one tends to paint much too pale and dark colours look much too white against it.” • To avoid smudging, start in the top left and work across the painting. Jeremy always does this “unless there is something that might ‘die’, like a plant or a boiled egg.”
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