Painting a Landscape study using the Zorn Palette on Newsprint Paper

Painting this landscape study using the Zorn palette was great fun! I painted onto un-primed newsprint paper (as an experiment for sketching with oil paint) and found it to be an excellent, absorbent surface which I will definitely use again. The view I chose to paint was the one which I see everyday from my studio window, which I have painted and drawn hundreds (yes hundreds!) of times. I mixed some walnut oil with the paints to give it some flow. The Zorn palette generally consists of Cadmium Red, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre and White. Anders Zorn probably used Lead White and Vermillion (and maybe a few other colours too) but this is what we use as the modern day version of his palette. It is a good, fun way of painting with a very limited palette although probably more suited to portrait painting rather than landscape work. I hope you enjoy the video - I am not trying to do anything clever with this one - just having some fun painting! Bye for now Andrew