Assignment #3 Verdaccio / Grisaille
Description:
Take a really good high-quality photos. The higher or lower your camera angle the photo will be more interesting. Also try to use one source lightening. Natual light from a window is the best. You can set up a night photo, but you might need more lightbulbs. The better the photo the better the painting. Print out a 8 /12 x 11 inch color photo and a black and white. Also, print out a 6" x 4" color photo to fit into the projector. Go to the business building (BAS) or third floor of the library to make laser color prints.
Material: choice pine boards, masonite / hard board
Size: 18 inches x 24inches
What you will learn: How to use a classical style of painting. How to create a glazing panel using water/sandpaper/and gesso to create smooth surface, build a cradled board, transfer an image, how to correct your image by "Truing it up", and how to add meaning through gesture, lighting, objects and color.
Process:
First: Start with Raw Umber and white and mix up 5 values. Paint the portrait gray. You have to build up your white area up. It can always get lighter the next day.
Second: Put a Terre Verte (Green) Glaze on the whole portrait and let it dry.
Third: Glaze the highlights in lemon yellow, the medium value in alizarin crimson (red) and all darks/shadows in cerulean blue.
Fourth: Start adding thin glazes of flesh color to the face. Mix your colors on the board, not just on your palette which teaches you color theory.
Add blues and reds to the shadow areas. **If you have too much salt, then don't put more in = the colors you already have on there will affect what colors you need more of.
Fifth: Keep building up your darks and lights. Your light area will get thicker/opaque and shadows will stay pretty thin with many coats of glazes.
Look at the example below and my you-tube video.
Description:
Take a really good high-quality photos. The higher or lower your camera angle the photo will be more interesting. Also try to use one source lightening. Natual light from a window is the best. You can set up a night photo, but you might need more lightbulbs. The better the photo the better the painting. Print out a 8 /12 x 11 inch color photo and a black and white. Also, print out a 6" x 4" color photo to fit into the projector. Go to the business building (BAS) or third floor of the library to make laser color prints.
Material: choice pine boards, masonite / hard board
Size: 18 inches x 24inches
What you will learn: How to use a classical style of painting. How to create a glazing panel using water/sandpaper/and gesso to create smooth surface, build a cradled board, transfer an image, how to correct your image by "Truing it up", and how to add meaning through gesture, lighting, objects and color.
Process:
First: Start with Raw Umber and white and mix up 5 values. Paint the portrait gray. You have to build up your white area up. It can always get lighter the next day.
Second: Put a Terre Verte (Green) Glaze on the whole portrait and let it dry.
Third: Glaze the highlights in lemon yellow, the medium value in alizarin crimson (red) and all darks/shadows in cerulean blue.
Fourth: Start adding thin glazes of flesh color to the face. Mix your colors on the board, not just on your palette which teaches you color theory.
Add blues and reds to the shadow areas. **If you have too much salt, then don't put more in = the colors you already have on there will affect what colors you need more of.
Fifth: Keep building up your darks and lights. Your light area will get thicker/opaque and shadows will stay pretty thin with many coats of glazes.
Look at the example below and my you-tube video.
Verdaccio / Grisaille Assignment / Professor Sisavanh Houghton 2/10/2020
Objective:
First Step: Take creative photos of the “The Figure, Interior or Exterior Spaces, and the Still-Life”.
Second Step: Collage--using cut and paste or on photoshop-- the images together to create a narrative painting. The combined images can be seamless or not perfectly aligned. The better the photo and more creative you are with lighting and composition, the more interesting your painting will be.
***Think….Multi-figure / narrative / dramatic/ surrealism/ collage / movement
How to Brainstorm for ideas/concepts? Look up titles of books, show titles for museums, galleries, poems, or even movie scenes
Words for inspiration: stylized allegories, domestic milieu, amusing and intense, transgression, physical and artistic taboos, psychologically loaded situations, dramatized, isolated, existential absurdity, artificiality are cultivated, house-like space, shifts in language, unnerve the viewer, satirical and seriousness, moving and astonishing
Where to find inspiration? Look at the classical artworks for light, composition, and narrative : Baroque, Mannerism, Rococo
Artists (not limited to the list) **Look at Photographers, Performance Artists, Sculptors
Marie-Louise Ekman, Phillip Pearlstein, Michael Borremans, Juliette Artistides
Eric Fischl, Artemisia Gentileschi, Olaf Breuning, Diego Velazquez
Max Ginsburg, Erwin Wurm, Johannes Vermeer, Cindy Sherman
Michele Mitchell, Miguel Calderon, Jeremy Lipking, Wayne Thiebaud
Patricia Watwood, Lucian Freud, Michael Grimaldi, Antonio Lopez Garcia
Ernest Meissonier, Bo Bartlett, David Kassan, Daniel Sprick, Scott Fraser
Odd Nerdrum, Cecelia Beaux, Steven Assael, Yuqi Wang
Jacob Collins, Andrew Wyeth, Nelson Shanks, William Whitaker,
Robert Rauschenberg
Objective:
First Step: Take creative photos of the “The Figure, Interior or Exterior Spaces, and the Still-Life”.
Second Step: Collage--using cut and paste or on photoshop-- the images together to create a narrative painting. The combined images can be seamless or not perfectly aligned. The better the photo and more creative you are with lighting and composition, the more interesting your painting will be.
***Think….Multi-figure / narrative / dramatic/ surrealism/ collage / movement
How to Brainstorm for ideas/concepts? Look up titles of books, show titles for museums, galleries, poems, or even movie scenes
Words for inspiration: stylized allegories, domestic milieu, amusing and intense, transgression, physical and artistic taboos, psychologically loaded situations, dramatized, isolated, existential absurdity, artificiality are cultivated, house-like space, shifts in language, unnerve the viewer, satirical and seriousness, moving and astonishing
Where to find inspiration? Look at the classical artworks for light, composition, and narrative : Baroque, Mannerism, Rococo
Artists (not limited to the list) **Look at Photographers, Performance Artists, Sculptors
Marie-Louise Ekman, Phillip Pearlstein, Michael Borremans, Juliette Artistides
Eric Fischl, Artemisia Gentileschi, Olaf Breuning, Diego Velazquez
Max Ginsburg, Erwin Wurm, Johannes Vermeer, Cindy Sherman
Michele Mitchell, Miguel Calderon, Jeremy Lipking, Wayne Thiebaud
Patricia Watwood, Lucian Freud, Michael Grimaldi, Antonio Lopez Garcia
Ernest Meissonier, Bo Bartlett, David Kassan, Daniel Sprick, Scott Fraser
Odd Nerdrum, Cecelia Beaux, Steven Assael, Yuqi Wang
Jacob Collins, Andrew Wyeth, Nelson Shanks, William Whitaker,
Robert Rauschenberg