Day Five detail |
I'm trying for an Old Masters effect. This under painting will have almost no texture or evidence of brush strokes. Almost a grissaile (an underpainting completely executed in monochrome, usually grey), I'm using a warm monochrome that ranges from a deep red-black to a light light brick-red.
I was pretty happy with today's work. I worked on the profile and some of the shading on the face, blocked in the hair and a lot of the background. I worked for almost three hours. This is slow going but really satisfying.
I'm using raw sienna, english red, van dyke brown and indigo and a lot of Liquin medium. If you enlarge the photo a left you will see what a great range of value and intensity I'm getting.
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