Spring and colour

Spring it here and I’ve taken to cycling out to the countryside in the evening with a camera and photographing likely scenes to paint. I’m still too agitated to embrace the idea of spending an afternoon out in the open painting what likely will be a disaster. Time is of the essence and I’ve  a programme of things that I need to get through that are better achieved in a studio. One is painting with just white, cad red, alizarin, cad yellow and ultramarine. I want to experiment with pure secondary colours and then add small amounts of others to tone them down and create duller versions. It’s a type of colour wheel experiment, but more about hues and values that colour mixing.