Comments on: Oil Painting – More Progress

By: Dan Edmondson

Dan Edmondson — Sun, 01 May 2011 03:50:30 +0000

The woman looks great! Nice painting! Thanks for sharing this!…Daniel

By: Shaun the Painter

Shaun the Painter — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:25:34 +0000

Hey, I just wanted to say… wow, you’ve got a really nice style! I think you have a strong voice in these paintings… thanks for posting your process! Keep at it.
Kindly,
Shaun

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:54:28 +0000

Thanks for the comment Susanne! Yes, I’ve been doing a lot of reading these last few days only to discover that my grisaille might be a little dark. I originally wanted the dark area in the reflection to have a Rembrandt-style black, since it was a flat surface, but hopefully the standing figure on the left won’t be so dark that no color shows through… We shall see, I suppose.

By: Susanne Eberhard

Susanne Eberhard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:11:39 +0000

Hi Dan,

please keep us up-to date on this beautiful work! (Rachel makes a phantastic model!) As I have said before, I love the composition of this painting. The reflection turned out really good in likeness and overall impact. (Just check the shadow between the first two fingers on the left hand, which seems a little odd to me.)

I am very interested in all your technical side-notes, because I am currently experimenting with grisaille as well, on a more modest level of course, just flowers for now. I wonder if you will be able to achieve good color on the standing girl on the left, the values seem so dark that transparent glazes would hardly be visible at all. This is one of my questions regarding this technique – do I lay down the total range of desired values already in the grisaille? Or do I rather stay a little more pale in the shadows – so I can deepen the shadows in the glazing phase and actually get some “glow” into the darks, instead of just grey/black. (I heard someone compare a good grisaille to an “slightly over-exposed black&white photograph)

As I am going to try some of this myself, I would love to compare experiences as we go. If you have time, I would appreciate your comments about the use of transparent vs. opaque / semi-opaque pigments for this technique.

Susanne