NEVERMORE

Diane Mannion, NEVERMORE, 6x6" oil on Gessobord

PAINTING BLACK WITHOUT BLACK

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Painted from photo reference for the DPW Weekly Challenge... paint a black bird without using black!   Could not paint a raven without thinking of Edgar Allan Poe!  My raven is sitting on the statue of Pallas above a door at midnight under the glow of an outside lamp shining through a window.

My palette:  Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colour, cadmium red, WinsorBlue (red shade), and cadmium yellow pale, plus Gamsol Radiant White.  Used blue, red, and only a touch of yellow to get the darkest "black."

THE RAVEN  

(first stanza), Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"Tis some visiter," I muttered,  "tapping at my chamber door-

      Only this and nothing more."

(And from 8th stanza...)

      

      Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

First stage of this painting... r,y,b,w over wipeout (also rybw) from day before:

Second stage:

Final again:

Top two photos taken inside under lights with iPhone.
Final is most correct taken outside with good camera.