Adding Colour to the Dead Layer
by admin on Aug.01, 2008, under General, Work In Progress
Continuing my first attempt at the classical Flemish multilayer technique I added started painting with colour for the final layers.
NUDE SITTING 9″ x 12″
The first two layers were done in acrylics for speed of drying and include the following layers:
- Gesso Priming (Acrylic Gesso)
- Sketch (Antelope Brown ink and pen)
- Imprimatura (Neutral ground Ochre, Ivory black, burnt umber)
- Umber underpainting (Burnt Umber)
- Dead Layer (Greyscale painting for dead skin tones
- Colour Layer (Final colour layer in Oils)
The idea is that the light will pass through the various layers of paint bringing out a lifelike glow remniscent of old master paintings who used this technique extensively right up to the 19th century.
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