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Old 05-13-2002, 08:54 PM   #1
Karin Wells Karin Wells is offline
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Underpainting example




This is a finished underpainting of my dog, "John Singer Sargent Wells" aka "Sarge." He is a mixed breed with the face of a black lab and the body of a hound (or a Rhodesian water spaniel?).

The painting is 10" x 8" and is oil on canvas. I used Genesis (non-toxic heat-set oils) and the process and result is EXACTLY as if I used traditional oils. Because, I did not have long "drying times" this project was completed in less than a day.

Getting Sarge to lie still while photographing him was the hard part...it took a lot of cheese cubes to convince him to cooperate.

Anyhow, this is generally how I do an underpainting. I really think of it as drawing with a brush. Note the very narrow range of values here. The colors I used are raw umber + titanium white.
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