HOME | DD
s-starko — Knight number 17
Published: 2011-06-12 18:12:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2531; Favourites: 87; Downloads: 41
Redirect to original
Description
30x40 cm oil on canvas.From the series of paintings depicting imaginary surreal knights in armor as symbol of personal isolationism and escapism.
Looks like concept art, but done in classic oil painting technique instead of CGI.
P.S. In this one I have used classic 3-step flemish method with monochrome underpainting.
Related content
Comments: 9
Your rendering of the metal on this is just fantastic! I've always shied away from shiny surfaces, but this makes me really want to try.
Your whole gallery is very nice too, btw. Your style reminds me a little of Frank Dicksee.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I'm flemish and I'm new here! What's the flemish method?
Btw: astonished by this painting. really special and cool and giving scifi vibes. Indeed has a darkness to it too
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Wow! If you are flemish - _I_ have to ask you about it 
I have a great e-book, but it's in russian. I can mail you if you able to read
Briefly, you dont paint all-at-once (as you see), but separate stages to drawing, tone painting and color painting. At start I was painted whole picture with just 2 colors - white and black (never gonna use black ivory for that again, it dried too long). Than I started adding thin semitransparent layers of color (like watercolor). This method increases color gamut (i.e. amount of visible colors) and helps you to avoid adding white pigment in the shadows, which always make painting looks muddy.
You can paint first layer with any color, not just black. Black just increases luminocity, any other color will increase coloration. Avoiding whites in the final layer is very good idea.Less whites = more color.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
