I've learned a lot on this Forum, specifically from Michael Georges' posts on "verdaccio," so I thought I'd share an outline of the Venetian Method, based on notes I took from Richard Lack's
On the Training of Painters.
If anyone has anything to add, please jump in!
Venetian Method:[list=1][*]Consists of first working out the basic ingredients of the design through separate drawings and oil studies in the usual manner.
a. Well-conceived color study
b. Several studies from nature
[*]Neutral gray underpainting with fully developed tone.
a. Solid, opaque and neutral
b. Flake white and raw umber
(Rembrandt greenish umber)
c. High degree of finish
d. Work out composition
e. Develop drawing
f. Establish values
g.
excellent example here (courtesy Karin Wells)
[*]Overall values should be several steps lower than final piece to allow for buildup of glazes.
[*]On scale of one to ten, darkest darks should not be darker than five.
[*]Glaze with thin, translucent brown to