Underpainting and Glazes Workshop

Underpainting and Glazes Workshop, $270, 18 hrs, 23-25 Mar

This oil painting technique came down from the Renaissance (1400 AD), and is still a beautiful and highly effective technique to create glowing realism or highly graphic representations with speed and control.  Of the two schools (Flemish and Venetian) I tend towards the Venetian, working on canvas with glazing and scumbling over grisaille or bistre underpainting and finishing with sfumato and impasto.  In the studio I paint almost exclusively in this technique for my gallery works. Many of my gallery artist colleagues do this too or a nuanced variation.  It is one of the oil painting essentials.

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