Coate Water Lake

Coate Water Lake - Oil painting (18" x 14") by Benoit Philippe

I did this plein-air painting on Saturday in Coate Water Country Park in Swindon (England). I sat on a bench sheltered by trees, which became convenient when the rain fell shortly after I started... I was also glad to work with oil and not watercolour.

Here is the palette I used for this painting. All paints are by Winsor & Newton:

• Titanium white (Griffin Alkyd paint)
• Cadmium Lemon
• Cadmium Yellow Deep
• Cadmium Red
• Alizarin Crimson
• Cobalt Turquoise Light 
• Cobalt Blue Hue (Griffin Alkyd)
• French Ultramarine (Griffin Alkyd)
• Phthalo Blue (Griffin Alkyd)