Lets talk about underpainting. I have really not used this technique extensively ( talking about it, i havent really painted so extensively either, i really have to count all my x y z paintings someday )
I am putting it here just to log it.
Cant really seem to remmember this while actually doing my paintings. I have a variety of ways to start a painting and it really depends on the subject.
Perhaps underpainting work well when you are doing a detailed subject, like, a portrait or still life . Landscapes cannot really use underpainting a lot, that requires a lot of "division of colors, spaces" before hand, and landscape, atleast i do landscape, gradually with layering of colors and placing the things in . top to bottom usually.
Check this below painting of still life 16X10 where i have used underpainting with burnt sienna and gray. And rightly, underpaintings are usually done in translucent warm colors, burnt sienna being one of them .
For understanding more about underpainting, check the link at the top.
It didnt really turn out to be that great an example, but whatever.Iam yet to finish the paiting by the way.
If you think about it, underpainting is a total opposite of glazing. It aids the form and composition rather than the color, texture of the painting.
Excerpt from the link :
"In its simplest terms, an underpainting is a monochrome version of the final painting intended to initially fix the composition, give volume and substance to the forms, and distribute darks and lights in order to create the effect of illumination.with a minimum of effort, an artist is able to envision quite accurately the totality of his pictorial idea. He could observe the defective parts of the painting and correct them with relative ease, for it is far easier to model with a few neutral tones than with more complex color mixtures. Even broad areas of the canvas which seemed too dark could be easily worked up and lighter ones darkened "
Saturday, 27-Nov-2010
I think i need to finish this painting soon . It might be soon that i will have to leave this place. And i realise, what else than this painting to remember my room with the peculiar window and the red wood walls.
Please give me Time Time Time, some,
Quiet leisurely time and leisurely mind.
Iam there, and almost there.
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