Grisaille today Color tomorrow
For those of you who were like me until about two weeks ago, and had no idea what that G work meant...a greta explanation and history from wikipedia...
"Grisaille (/ɡrᵻˈzaɪ/ or /ɡrᵻˈzeɪl/; French: gris [ɡʁizaj] 'grey')
is a term for a paintingexecuted
entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour.[1]”
A grisaille may be executed for
its own sake, as underpainting for
an oil painting(in
preparation for glazing layers of colour over it), or as a model for an engraverto work from.
"Rubens and his school sometimes use monochrome techniques in sketching
compositions for engravers."[3] Full
colouring of a subject makes many more demands of an artist, and working in
grisaille was often chosen as being quicker and cheaper, although the effect
was sometimes deliberately chosen for aesthetic reasons. Grisaille paintings
resemble the drawings,
normally in monochrome, that artists from the Renaissance on were trained to
produce;”
LOVE this part...
" like drawings they (grisaille)
can also betray the hand of a less talented assistant more easily than a fully
coloured painting. “
So is a grisaille the renaissance’s way of saying, put up or shut up?
UPDATE Instead of grisaille today and color tomorrow, it is more like color in a month. Apparently this grisaille layer needs to be completely dry before color can be added. In fact it has been two weeks and the professor says no we still have to wait...sigh...
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