Looking forward to the arrival of spring on Friday and the return of daffodils. These are from our garden last year, now available as greeting cards and prints. The original oil painting is available for sale here.
More color and value sketches on Arches oil paper
Value and color studies (left) for a 12" x 9" oil painting on panel in progress (right)
After completing a precise pencil drawing at full scale on Dura-Lar for this 9" x 12" painting, it was scanned in. I did a bit of work on it in Photoshop to adjust the levels and contrast, cut the Arches oil paper to 8.5" x 11", selected the option to scale it down to the size of the paper and printed it.
Painting these allaprima grayscale value and color sketches really helped me work out how I should proceed with the larger indirect painting on panel.
For the larger painting on panel, I rubbed a very light coat of unthinned raw umber oil paint on the back of the Dura-Lar drawing and transferred it to the panel.
Printing on Arches oil paper
Pencil sketch scanned in
I love painting on Arches oil paper so I was happy to find that I could print out my scanned pencil sketch on the paper cut to 8.5x11" and get straight into painting a value study; a time saver for complicated compositions that need preliminary value or color sketches. Brushing Gamsol over the print didn't smear the ink. I'll print out another one and do a color sketch for this composition that will be a 24 x 36" commissioned oil painting on linen depicting the wine making process.
Pencil sketch printed out on Arches oil paper with value sketch in progress.
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