Thursday, May 28, 2009

First glimpses of Sundays: underpaintings

I use these intensely colorful acrylic studies to figure out the composition and contrast
and to experiment with different colors and combinations.
I don't gesso my canvases in white, I make real under-paintings. 

Usually none of this will be visible in the finished painting, after layers and layers of oil paint, but it does always seem to have a huge influence on everything.


This is how it all started this time: with monochromatic sketches.

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