Two days workshop using the grisaille under painting technique and we came up with some amazing portraits
We got over the hump of difficulty with portraits which is the drawing and enlarged our images and traced them
then set about making fully resolved tonal underpaintings in paynes grey and white
The colour was then laid on in thin glazes.
this is an excellent exercise in gaining tonal intelligence which really is a fundamental in painting.
Getting the tones in the right relationship to one another.
Then we played with varying mixes of colour to make some skin tone glazes that worked for that person
Not all the works were finished so i am publishing only some of them
Mary Finlay
Cynthia Mitchell
Wendy Selkirk
Angie Ng
Pat Shepheard- Walwyn
Excellent work everyone
Like Ingres and Courbet and all those boys we are using technology to help our process…so we are in good company
We also need to keep up our work with drawing from life as well
What i propose is we do some weekend drawing workshops soon , and one of the first ones will be SELF PORTRAIT drawing in the mirror.
one of the best exercises in raising visual consciousness. Learning to draw is about learning to see in the special way that you need in order to draw.
Like learning another language..it takes time
Portraits are all about proportion and relationship, tone and colour.