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Welcome back to the studio, and thank you for joining me. This week, I have a few new and exciting techniques to share with you.
For this, 16x20” painting of Red Junglefowl, I started with a verdaccio underpainting. It’s a tonal underpanting, usually monochromatic green, but I added a little bit of Transparent Red Oxide and Phaloto green to mine.
Why do an underpainting like verdaccio? It’s so we can map out our value dynamic before we get into the nitty-gritty details of our painting.
It’s quite different from my usual approach of Block-In, Modeling, and Detail. How do you think it turned out?
Watch the livestream replay of the verdaccio underpainting.
youtube.com/live/krhGZND1IeY
Here are my colors used in this project
Burnt umber / Raw umber / Transparent red oxide / Transparent yellow oxide / Nickel azo yellow / Titanium white / Cremnitz white / Nickel yellow / Nickel yellow deep / Cadmium lemon / Hanza yellow / Indian yellow / Cadmium orange / Cadmium red light / Quinacridone red rose / Quinacridone magenta / Ultramarine blue / Cobalt blue / Cobalt teal / Chromium green oxide / Turquoise pthalo / Pthalo blue / Pthalo green
Brushes
Ivory Flats / Synthetic Flat / Eclipse Comber / Flat Comber / Short Synthetic Filbert
Mediums
Alkquin Reason / Liquin Imapsto / Liquin Orginal / Gamsol
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Welcome back to the studio, and thank you for joining me. This week, I have a few new and exciting techniques to share with you.
For this, 16x20” painting of Red Junglefowl, I started with a verdaccio underpainting. It’s a tonal underpanting, usually monochromatic green, but I added a little bit of Transparent Red Oxide and Phaloto green to mine.
Why do an underpainting like verdaccio? It’s so we can map out our value dynamic before we get into the nitty-gritty details of our painting.
It’s quite different from my usual approach of Block-In, Modeling, and Detail. How do you think it turned out?
Watch the livestream replay of the verdaccio underpainting.
youtube.com/live/krhGZND1IeY
Here are my colors used in this project
Burnt umber / Raw umber / Transparent red oxide / Transparent yellow oxide / Nickel azo yellow / Titanium white / Cremnitz white / Nickel yellow / Nickel yellow deep / Cadmium lemon / Hanza yellow / Indian yellow / Cadmium orange / Cadmium red light / Quinacridone red rose / Quinacridone magenta / Ultramarine blue / Cobalt blue / Cobalt teal / Chromium green oxide / Turquoise pthalo / Pthalo blue / Pthalo green
Brushes
Ivory Flats / Synthetic Flat / Eclipse Comber / Flat Comber / Short Synthetic Filbert
Mediums
Alkquin Reason / Liquin Imapsto / Liquin Orginal / Gamsol
