gold point drawing

A recent drawing
This is a drawing (which I now cannot upload to this site but will work on and fix) after Charles Bargue which I did as a class exercise modified by me to make it more interesting. It is under my name on my site at www.yessy.com. The technique consists of the use of a thin wire of 24 karat gold instead of a 0.9 mmm graphite lead in a mechanical pencil. This will produce very fine lines on a paper or board coated with two or three layers of Chinese white watercolor. You can then slowly build up tones and planes, in this instance for producing a copy of a Charles Bargue drawing from his course on drawing republished several years ago.
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The Barrel Racer

This painting was done entirely in casein with a grisaille underpainting with the same medium. The support is birch veneer over an MDF core which was gessoed with Daniel Smith gesso.

oil painting shortcut

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Grisaille underpainting
10/29/06I recently discovered a shortcut in oil painting. I had been slowed down by paint build up while trying to paint- alla prima- the figure in the 3 hour sessions with the model. The paint was not drying quickly enough in order to be able to paint the next layer without mixing the colours underneath and getting mud. I now underpaint in black, white and gray in Shiva casein colours. These dry to the touch within minutes and I can get the modelling of the figure down in about 1 1/2 hours which leaves me the rest of the 3 hour session to complete the figure in oil.

Barrel Racer