Underpainting Oil Painting Portrait Technique
Learn how to paint portraits using the underpainting oil technique – Part 1
Lesson #011 Part 1: By using the underpainting oil technique we will achieve the effect that the old masters gained in their paintings.
Using the technique of the old masters can benefit you. Why you should learn this? Because this is the first step to be a pro. To gain the effect you want to achieve in oil painting, you need a basic understanding of the underpainting drawing.
Underpainting oil portrait technique is the first video in a series of three that explains how to prepare grisaille mix for an underpainting portrait.
In the second tutorial, we learned how to paint the grayscale layer of the portrait.
So, what is the Grisaille technique?
Grisaille technique is an oil painting technique an artist uses, to create a monochromatic drawing in greys or similar neutral grey colors. This considers as the first layer of the oil painting, and this is what called the underpainting oil technique.
The first layer was the underpainting oil technique drawing of the woman’s face on the canvas. The second layer was adding the brownish values, while in the third layer is the mix of the gray values, the darkest to the lightest parts of the painting that we learned in the first video on this series. Using grayscale underpainting enables us to darken the shadow parts and lighten the lightened parts of the image. In this stage of the painting, we are building the contrast by using values shade of color for the shadows and the highlights, the dark parts of an image, and the highlights with grayscale values.
If you really want to see how to mix and prepare grayscale values scale, watch the Underpainting Oil Painting Portrait Technique video the first part of the three videos.
I love to use oil painting it is very exciting to see the development of your artwork changing during the process until the last amazing results. This technique needs time in between the painting process. You need to wait for each layer to dry.
How grayscale underpainting technique improve
our oil painting portrait?
• Underpainting oil portrait technique creates a monochrome layer under colored layer and it emphasizes the use of glazing.
• Underpainting oil portrait technique called also Grisaille. Painting shades of gray that used also for sculpturing and for stained glass.
• Underpainting oil portrait technique enables the use of transparent color on top of the grayscale layer.
• Underpainting oil portrait technique help to plan your painting.
What makes artwork so special?
The contrast, the difference between dark and light. A good artist will use his knowledge to bring everything he knows to the canvas.
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