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Description
h: 70cm x l:40cm
Monochrome oil paint.

After making a rather dandy sketch ---- I go and destroy it with the underpainting! Hence, it's best not to get too attached to your initial sketch, or to bother putting in too much detail or getting too "fiddly" with it as the only way that you'll ever see it again is with an X-ray machine.

The UnderPainting is nothing more than a quick block in, preserving the major elements of the sketch and finding form for the painting. I try to break it down into around 5 tones ranging from light to dark. I use a dull grey-green colour for the underpainting, (similar to the colour scheme of the DA website!) as this will help to restrict the intensity of colour when you paint over the top of it - thus helping to avoid over saturation. Also if any of the underpainting shows through, it tends to fade from the eye's notice, making it not stand out at all --- without underpainting specks of white canvas do tend to show through and once you notice them they simply become more and more noticeable and annoying.

The green/grey colour tends to work best with all other colours painted over it, being the least noticeable. Just keep it dull.

The underpainting is in oils, because nothing is better to paint oils on more than oils themselves.

Description
h: 70cm x l:40cm
Monochrome oil paint.

After making a rather dandy sketch ---- I go and destroy it with the underpainting! Hence, it's best not to get too attached to your initial sketch, or to bother putting in too much detail or getting too "fiddly" with it as the only way that you'll ever see it again is with an X-ray machine.

The UnderPainting is nothing more than a quick block in, preserving the major elements of the sketch and finding form for the painting. I try to break it down into around 5 tones ranging from light to dark. I use a dull grey-green colour for the underpainting, (similar to the colour scheme of the DA website!) as this will help to restrict the intensity of colour when you paint over the top of it - thus helping to avoid over saturation. Also if any of the underpainting shows through, it tends to fade from the eye's notice, making it not stand out at all --- without underpainting specks of white canvas do tend to show through and once you notice them they simply become more and more noticeable and annoying.

The green/grey colour tends to work best with all other colours painted over it, being the least noticeable. Just keep it dull.

The underpainting is in oils, because nothing is better to paint oils on more than oils themselves.