While painting, we will keep analysing the spaces in order not to lose the structure. Which means that we will have to give other layers of paint to provide more texture to the painting. This will make the painting slightly lighter and usually causes sinking in when it dries. Gamson is a less toxic version of the medium. The first layer will be painted with turpentine or gamson. Light area: for the general light we want to use light with a pinch of black and another of raw umber and for the highlight we will simply use pure White. In both cases, we want to keep a contrast with the shadow. Half tone: We want to find two possible half tones, one lighter and one slightly darker (and colder?) that we can use for transition areas. Then, we will look for half tones, a general light and a high light. (pausa) Although, we may want our shadow shapes to be slightly warmer than the background to make an aesthetic effect. Then, we prepare the background which will be colder than the darkest dark and will have the same value as the shadow shapes. This is the only mix that will not have White in this pallet. Here, our darkest dark is a warm black, which means it has some black mixed with raw umber. The first mix we look for and that we will use as a comparison to all the other mixes is our darkest dark. In the mixing we organize our pallet from the darkest to the lightest value. We could also have chosen to use another warm colour such as transparent oxide red but in this case we will use raw umber. We use titan White for the lower layers but it is possible that when the White dries, the value becomes darker therefore on the upper layer we can use zinc White, flake White, or even, the better option, lead White which are more stable.īlack and White are the cold colours and we will use raw umber which is warmer than our black and our White to avoid having an extremely cold painting. Ivory Black (that can be used as blue), Raw umber and initially titan White. It is important to also double-check all the spaces at the same time as drawing. Half tones are used to see rhythms and to produce shapes. We want the value of our brush strokes to be light but we do not want to use too much turpentine because this could make our lines too transparent as well as produce Sharp edges and in this case we want to be able to create soft lines. Both brushed need to be a medium to slim size. Therefore, in the first layer we will mix the raw umber with turpentine that we can apply directly on the brush.Īs for the brushes, we will use one for drawing with raw amber and turpentine and one for erasing with turpentine only. This way, our lines would be flexible because it would be wet into wet.Īlthough in this case (accentuate), there will be several layers of Paint and the way we use mediums in layers of painting is from dry to wet (more oil). If we were painting at “la prima” we would use oil medium by putting a thin layer of oil on the canvas and then mixing raw umber with it as well. The colour that we use is raw umber (in this case from the Brand “holland”)
This part consists in drawing with oil Paint. This way we will minimize the risk of losing the drawing and the charcoal will not mix with the painting. We will then fix the charcoal with some turpentine. In this first section, we must invest time in finding construction lines and spaces but not in making a finished drawing since the drawing will be completed with painting in a later stage. It is important to have an order in the construction because if we work on completely separate spaces, these may not end up matching. In this cast we will decide to start the drawing from the forehead downward. It is important to find a centre line and to start constructing around a point that we define as our truth or point of reference. To do so, we will look for the big shape using side size, starting by defining the upper and lower point of the cast as well as a point that we shall define as our truth for example the line of the bridge of the nose. The objective is to get a simple and constructive drawing that will define spaces. We will start by the first layer of drawing with charcoal. Your opinion is very important for us so do not forget to leave your comment about our tutorials. The explanation is in English with subtitles in Spanish We give you some tips that we hope will be useful. In this tutorial, we explain the general steps we take when we paint a cast. We have a new tutorial on our YouTube page!
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