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Originally Posted by Vince-Vell
Looking good man!
Are you painting over a black board? or did you paint the black on it? i ask cause in college my professor always painted everything over a dark blue background and stuff used to look amazing with some of it showing thru.
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It is a canvas. Process:
Cut Raw Canvas--->
Build Frame or Stretcher Bars--->
Staple Canvas to Bars--->
Prime 3 Coats of white gesso onto canvas--->
Sand with fine sand paper--->
I tone the canvas or give it base color with seinna--->
Use umber color to "draw" the skull on the canvas--->
I then blacked-out the background so I can make the skull pop and get an idea of color relationship to the background which will help later in blending the skull to make it seem it is fading into the background--->
And now I have been painting in details and more color to give it diffferent planes or depth.
I still have a ways to go.
I hope that explains it.
Also there are amazing things you can do with a solid color background to set as a midtone or dartone. For instance here is a Charcoal drawing I did a few months back with a color canson paper and white chalk/black charcoal.
Thanks,
-Jon
