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Kerst en Nieuwjaarswensen 2010
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Explanation of one of my working procedures:
Florian
"Florian", oil on canvas, 40cm x 60 cm, 24 april 2005, unfinished!
You can find the finished painting of Florian on custompage 3!!!
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Below is a picture of Florian given to me by the family, the result of this painting is displayed on demonstrationpage 2. Steps:
First I make a picture of the child, or the picture is being sent to me. Secondly I make a charkole drawing on the canvas. When I am satisfied by the drawing I start to use a glazing medium, which I mix with a rectified terpentine and some lineoil and burned umber or indian red oilcolor. Next, I make the whole painting transparantly dark. I start by darkening the background to lighten up the figure. Finally I work from dark to light.
I only use the 3 basical colours on the first layer of the painting and burnt umber. Cobalt blue, crimson red (and or indian red), and chrome yellow (for the light parts in the hair). With these three primary colours I can get the 3 secundary colors and eventuelly the12 colors of the colorcircle. So you don't need so much different oilcolours to make a good painting. By example, I use some blue, to mix with yellow (for the green carpet on the table) or mix it with red or burned umber for the darkest, deepest parts in the painting. Now, the painting (first layer) is completely dark enough to get started and to make my colourpalet ready. From now on I will paint from dark to light and mix different colours all the time!
To make it easy to myself I enlarge the picture to size A4 to see a lot of details. From here on I 'll need a couple of days, mostly I need a month or even two, (depends on the size of the painting), also to put it away for a few days, to be able to take some distance of the painting and look with a fresh mind later on, to find weak parts or mistakes. I can never tell in advance how many days I need to finish the painting, but I only stop when the client and I are satisfied.
In the 3th picture, which I specially made to show you my workingprocedure, you can still see the drawinglinesunder the mixture of the transparant glazingmedium. Look at the child's left hand andthe transparant parts in indian red of my unfinished painting (also look at the right arm ofFlorian and at the dark background, in burned umber).
Picture of "Florian":
