John Richardson
Morning in Lucania, 2005
acrylic on canvas
4 x 6"
A little statement by John Richardson
I make pictures of things I like to look at. Some others seem to like looking
at them too.
For some years I have chosen to use a quite limited palette -- a particular
palette for each series of paintings. My Italian series (Morning in Lucania)
and my sketches (Camilla) use only red ochre, yellow ochre, lamp black, and zinc
white.
For my series of paintings of southeastern Saskatchewan I chose red and yellow
ochre again and replaced black with pthalo blue (Eastend Sketch 1). I also used
this pallet for my series 'Figures in a Streetscape' and for a number of Alberta
scenes (The Letourneau Family at Cold Lake).
For my latest series I've moved completely to modern pigments, but still only
four: titanium white, pthalo blue, cadmium yellow, and quinacridone violet
(Looking Back Again).
