Monday, April 12, 2010
Underpainting- Parchment Figures: Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones
Parchment Figures: Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones, 2010,
24" x 30", 61cm x 76.2cm, underpainting. (opens to a resizable pop-up window)
A video at YouTube on painting process, and on the chalk
sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsUQVGXSWro
When I hit the undo button on this post, everything was deleted... trying to remember what I wrote.
Ummm, oh, yes, I did some research on the NET and decided to try a new technique. In the post-midnight darkness I mixed a little Golden® acrylic paint and scrubbed the figures in Raw Sienna with a touch of Titanium White. Today I'll block in the background with the lightest wash of Golden® Raw Sienna and Bone Black. When it's dry, I'll rinse off the original chalk drawing. Then I'll paint the whole canvas with a layer of Windsor & Newton's® Liquin Original and let it dry until tomorrow.
From what I read at Windsor & Newton's® site, I believe the Liquin will change my water-soluble oil paints into traditional oil paints and rather than diluting in water and washing the brushes after in water, I'll have to use turpentine.
I haven't explored this process before and so don't know the parameters or how the colours of the oils will work over the underpainting. In the last two 'on black' paintings I found it was necessary to paint very thick layers of oil paint and I wasn't able to work on detail as I might have liked.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Parchment Figures: Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones
direct link: Parchment Figures: Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones
A painter on painting. Or, I'm painting again! Yay!
Wasn't a planned video, rather, thinking, many artists are showing themselves painting on-screen, let's put the camera on and get some footage, but I got talking, you know how it is, at night too though I managed to boost the light when I edited it, and now it's a bona fide video.
Enjoy. Hopefully you will find inspiration here for your own art, and might consider posting your own video.
Note: click on the base of the slideshow
to start the slideshow (or in the middle to
go to Picasa and see larger images).
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Stills from 'Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones'
An unplanned video -are they ever any other way?- thought I'd set the camera up while painting, yes at night, I know, silly, only I got talking, you know how it is. Thought it way too dark to consider for anything, but a filter on FinalCut Express, which is what I use to edit video, brought the light out. It's nearly 7½ minutes long, was over 8GB in a Quicktime .mov, but with a bit of fiddling, and I hope the quality is alright when it's finished uploading, I got it down to 1.6GB -under the 2GB limit at YouTube.
It's a 6 hour upload, I know, marathon. Should be up by tomorrow. A few stills... (click for larger)
Later now and it's up: Parchment Figures: Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones
It's a 6 hour upload, I know, marathon. Should be up by tomorrow. A few stills... (click for larger)
Later now and it's up: Parchment Figures: Doubles, Doppelgängers, Clones
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