Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Open Grisaille


Art, which has always been squeezed in between making money and doing dishes, adored being attended to during the day. For two weeks, I painted from 9-4. I painted in the morning, talked to painters about painting during breaks, and returned again to painting in the afternoon. At the end of the day, I had an end of the day, not an exhausted post-work self filled with guilty thoughts about why I don't paint.

Grisaille means "grey," It's a painting of tones ranging from dark to light. In the grisaille stage you use straight lines, because lines and angles allow for room to move, and adjustments can be made. In contrast, circles, such as making the head a circular shape, are complete. And then you are sort of stuck with it.

In this stage you get the whole figure in quickly, its fundamental essence, slant, and weight.

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