Torrit Grey 2008 Workshop

[Chris Saper]

Step 4

Stating the dark and middle values, I hope you can see how purple the background on the left of the head has become. The TG behaves like a crushed blueberry, when it gets wet...adding either white or mineral spirits lightens it but moves it between blue-violet and red-violet, depending on how much black's in the mix.

[Chris Saper]

Step 5

Now all of the canvas is covered with light, middle and dark values; the paint is still pretty thin

[Chris Saper]

Step 6

Here I start to pay more attention to locating the features, and adding more value detail.

[Chris Saper]

Step 7

Starting to model more of the form through corrections.

[Chris Saper]

Step 8

More of the same

[Chris Saper]

Step 10

This was as far as I got - just paying attention to the eyes and mouth, and continuing to puzzle over the TG.

[Chris Saper]

Between the time I did my first demo, I became re-engergized about monochrome paintings after the development of this thread. So in my Prescott open studio group I decided to paint a monochrome, just using TG and mineral spirits, trying out a wipe-out method. Again, I used an inexpensive, acrylic primed canvas.

Here I place the head, locate the horizontals, and start to separate light and shadow.