Painting 3
A demonstration of how to prime a board - right to the edges, and not too thinly. The acrylic primer dries in 15-20 minutes.
We'd brought in greyscale photos "that tell a story". I used one of my "dames and dogs" pix, taken in Paris a few years back. First step was to scale it up onto the board. Then we turned the board upside down and painted in the tones (black, white, grey) and temperature - yellow ochre, mixed with black of white.
By lunchtime the acrylic paint was on, in blocks.
We were adding oil paint on top of the (dry) acrylic - any colour you wanted as long as the tones were the same. Which my purple shadows certainly weren't - so off they came - that's the joy of oil, being able to scrape it all back (or so they say).
The finished painting. I'm not unhappy with it.
All in all, an impressive display.
We'd brought in greyscale photos "that tell a story". I used one of my "dames and dogs" pix, taken in Paris a few years back. First step was to scale it up onto the board. Then we turned the board upside down and painted in the tones (black, white, grey) and temperature - yellow ochre, mixed with black of white.
By lunchtime the acrylic paint was on, in blocks.After lunch we got instructions on how to add colour.
We were adding oil paint on top of the (dry) acrylic - any colour you wanted as long as the tones were the same. Which my purple shadows certainly weren't - so off they came - that's the joy of oil, being able to scrape it all back (or so they say).
The finished painting. I'm not unhappy with it.
All in all, an impressive display.
Labels: courses, drawing etc, paintings
posted by margaret at 07:32
1 Comments:
Love your painting. Why does it seem so much easier to draw something when looking at it upside down?
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