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Pastel Pointers | Getting Started With an Underpainting, Part 2
One simple way to create a value underpainting is to use permanent India ink, consisting of carbon black, gum and shellac. Utilized since the Renaissance as a means for creating a permanent drawing in advance of over painting, a pastelist can dilute the ink with water to produce a variety of value washes. Once dry, various colored underpainting techniques can be applied without altering the underlying value design. If you plan to use water-based techniques over the value underpainting, be sure to obtain the permanent version of India ink.
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Pastel Pointers | Getting Started With an Underpainting, Part 1
Starting a pastel painting with an underpainting is one of my favorite methods. It sets the stage for the subsequent applications of pigment and provides something upon which to respond. An underpainting can be both utilitarian and serendipitous in its intention. One focuses on blocking in the large value and color relationships, making it easier to respond with detail. The other provides a more accidental/spontaneous happening, which often leads to new creative possibilities. Marrying these two concepts into one application can be a frustrating procedure. Either a solid value/color ground is achieved and creative spontaneity compromised, or an exciting spontaneous underpainting is achieved and a solid value/color structure is lacking. With practice, though, these two concepts can come together into one underpainting but until that technical ability is achieved, there are a couple of techniques that can be employed that will provide a solid value foundation upon which a serendipitous application of color can be applied.
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The Pastel Landscape Premium Palette offers tutorials by today’s top pastel artists and art materials to help you perfect your pastel landscape painting. For the month of May, get $10 off.
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Fine Art Contest – $25,000 in Cash Prizes
See your work in The Artist’s Magazine! Final Deadline: Today! May 4, 2012 PRIZES: 5 First Place Awards: $2,500 each 5 Second Place Awards: $1,250 each 5 Third Place Awards: $750 each 15 Honorable Mentions: $100 each Winners will be …
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Vincent’s Gardens by Ralph Skea
In his new book Vincent’s Gardens, author Ralph Skea surveys the gardens that were most revered by Van Gogh—from the parsonage gardens in the Netherlands to the romance of Parisian city parks; from the blazing flower beds of Provence to …
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