I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I realized that I needed to use a color closer to Burnt Sienna as my desaturated orange; my desaturated “orange” was simply too brown and yellow.

In any case, while it was fresh on my mind, I decided to do a quickie painting of another jack o’lantern, skipping the smaller one and just focusing on getting the colors correct. I used a 6×6 Ampersand Gessoboard that I had toned with yellow ochre several months ago.

The color of the surface the pumpkin sits on is actually a bit more lavender than blue; the photo lighting is a bit off. And I really dislike the slippery Gessoboard!