For my birthday, I treated myself to a mini-workshop (5
hours) sponsored by the Sea Coast Artist Guild on the Grisaille, or Old Master's
technique of painting .
Our instructor, Jolyn
Kuhn provided us with several different still life set ups I chose the one
below.
The idea was to first sketch out the
still life in burnt umber, then refine it further into a fully developed value
study.
The idea was to first sketch out the
still life in burnt umber, then refine it further into a fully developed value
study.
By using thin
layers of oil paint (thinned with turpenoid not oil) one can achieve a very
finely finished painting.
Over
lunch we let the paintings dry, then sprayed them with Damar Retouch Varnish.
Once this dried we were ready to start applying thin layers of color
over the value study.
Unfortunately, for most of us, our value studies
did not dry in time to do this step. Never the less we did learn enough to use
the technique at home.
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