Florian
Steps:
First step.
First I make a picture of the child, or the picture is being sent to me. Secondly I make a charkole drawingon the canvas.
When I am satisfied bij the drawing I start to use a glazing medium, which I mix with a rectifiedterpentine 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.
Picture of "Florian"
In this 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).
"Florian", oil on canvas, 40cm x 60 cm, 23 april 2005, unfinished!
Untill now I only used 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 thehair). With these three primary colours I can get the 3 secundary colors and eventuelly the12 colors of thecolorcircle. So you don't need so much different oilcolours to make a good painting. By example, I usesome 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 colorpalet 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 or when I know the painting cannot get better.
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