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Natural world » HOT SEASON HOT SEASON   I started working on this picture soon after I had finished the cool season picture at the end of January. I began by trying to find the right colours which I felt were sort of ‘bleached by the sun’ colours. I did the six visual note pictures over a period of about two weeks,but none of them seemed to capture the exact colours that I was looking for. I therefore decided to go ahead and paint ‘the big picture’ and hope that it would work. Unfortunately it didn’t as the first picture I painted had to be abandoned. I wrote: ‘I had started a picture ‘hot season colours’ and had found the right colour blue and painted the canvas. I wanted to finish the picture despite the fact that although I have done lots of visual notes, the actual picture has not crystallized. But it seemed right to carry on as I did have a vague idea about what the picture would be. When I started I felt fear as I realised I didn’t know how the picture would turn out. Then I started painting with brown and then it didn’t seem to go right at all. Very annoyingly I was disturbed just as I had got to a difficult part of the picture and I felt a lot of resentment – why is it so difficult to find undisturbed time to paint? I wasn’t really happy with how the picture turned out but took it to the session anyway and am glad that I did. I realised that I was trying to paint a different picture – ‘earth’ rather than ‘colours of the hot season’. At last I think I know what the latter is going to look like now and that it needs to be painted in layers and so will take some time.’ I had another go and although liked this picture I still didn’t feel that it encapsulated the hot season. In the end the final picture was the last of the four that I finished on March 14th . It was only when I saw the other three pictures of this series that I realised what the final hot season picture needed to be like. |