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SOG Forum member Carl Toboika emailed me some questions about this workshop and I thought the exchange of information might be of interest to others:
Carl: Thank you for your very thorough Tony Ryder workshop thread. You did a wonderful job, the photos were great, and I like working on a wash in
myself.
Your wash in and drawing looked cool, but I didn't see the horizontal and vertical lines that I saw in Bill Whitaker's workshop from you. I assume they were in charcoal and then discarded. How did you like that method of beginning? Is the wash-in the only stage you had time to complete? I didn't see a picture of your form painting.
I have a couple of questions for you. I see when he goes over the wash-in, he gets the soft edges and subtle transitions amazingly well, in what
seems like one layer over the wash in. What is his method for blending, or getting these soft edges and subtleties?
Does he use relatively fluid paint over the wash in, or keep it thicker?
Also how does he neutralize his colors?
Michele: I did draw the model using horizontal and vertical lines (to mark important measurements) like I used in Bill's workshop, in charcoal, and I erased them once I had the overall shape done.
I finished the form painting and I should post it. I'm not 100% happy with my drawing, etc., so even though I really like the skin textures I
was able to produce, I don't think the overall piece was one of my best. Perhaps over the next couple of days I'll post what I did in the form
painting, anyway, since there are things that might be useful to see.
In future I may greatly simplify the wash-in stage, with just large masses of thinned general colors, so I can still see the drawing. I find that step very time consuming and I
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