View From Hot Springs Mountain from the collection of Visit Hot Springs

View From Hot Springs Mountain

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McHenry’s experience with color as a billboard painter greatly informed his future color choices as both a landscape artist and a portraitist. “Looking at a billboard that had been in the direct sunlight for several months was a good lesson in the accelerated aging of paint colors,” the artist remembers. “I would carefully examine billboards that had been up for a year or more and adjust my palette accordingly. When I first started painting portraits, two of the colors I favored were rose madder and alizarin crimson. However, after two weeks in the direct sunlight on a billboard, these colors would be completely bleached out and the face would appear jaundiced. I started using the synthetic quinacridone colors because they do not fade as noticeably. The cadmium colors are also relatively lightfast and most blues tend to hold up well. All colors will fade eventually but the key is to pick a palette of colors that fade the slowest, and at the same rate, so that the color balance does not shift.”

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