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Study of Dana
This is another way to begin. In school I learned a method of beginning a painting through monochrome. This was fairly standard operating procedure through most Western painting methods for many centuries. This is an example of how I would begin a painting with a monochrome block-in that was meant to work out nearly all problems in composition, drawing, value and edge. It is an excellent way to work out many problems without having to deal with color, paint thickness and wet into wet painting. The paint is thinly applied to the point of transparency. Care must be taken in the darks not to build up the paint too thickly. The paint is thinned slightly with paint thinner and maybe a bit of oil for the initial stages. Subsequent stages use only the paint as it comes straight out of the tube. Stick with the red earth colors as they are easier to manipulate than the staining colors and have less tendency to interfere with color when showing through brushwork later on. The only problem with this method is that sometimes you intended it to be a block-in and it turns out so beautiful as is that it seems such a crime to cover it up and that you end up leaving it as a monochrome painting... As I did!
Sorry about the wrinkles, haven't stretched it yet.
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