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Work from Rome
Well,
Since many people have asked to see stuff from the Town to which all roads lead, here are a few things:
First the sketch from the other day, which is now photographed. It is 1,5ft by 4ft and I think I will call it "Nocturne". It's the trees right in front of The Danish Academy with a fuzzy moon.
Then I thought it might be an idea to show you how I normally work, so here are some different photos on my approach to things:
1. Drawing is the foundation of a good painting, and I usually do a fairly detailed one that will guide me through the rest of the process.
2.This time I simply used a pensil directly on the oil primed canvas.
3. Then, since I desided to do as the old Romans did it (when in Rome, do as the Romans) I re drew everything with a pigment pen. This is in order not to smear the draft when I do the the imprimitura.
4. Here, since the light is very warm, I wanted to have a warm under tone, I used a burnt umbra directly from the tube. Sometimes when I chose the background to look more like the canvas it self, I use raw umbra in stead. (mant different earth tones can be used here depending on tast.
5. So now it will dry down a little until tomorrow. Then it gets that special, slightly sticky quality that i like so much to start painting for real.
Hope this showes you something about my normal landscape painting.
Do comment, please!!!
Best wishes
Mikael
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