My first oil painting in the style of the old masters...about 3/4 way done with the underpainting and grisaille layer...
Study with dark ceramic cup, drapery and egg
Traditional underpaintings only have one color, usually only burnt umber is used.
I love the way that Colin has us using Payne’s Grey for the cools and Burnt Umber for the warms of the composition.
Another thing he has done is to push the class to work BIG right off the bat...so here is another photo with my hand in it to show scale...
So now that egg looks like it belongs to a ostrich instead of a chicken!
This scale does remind me of going to Europe the first time and seeing the proportions in original works in the Lourve and Uffizi that I had been studying for years, feeling that they were just life size, even after reading the dimensions. It is still a bit of a delightful shock to see their real size and see how their proportions still worked out!
Guess it is just experience vs. knowledge once again.
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