I chose to use a grisaille technique for the painting of this old man in watercolor. Grisaille is an old technique oil painters used to develop a monochromatic value study, kinda like a road map for your painting. This later served as a base for the addition of transparent layers of color. For this painting, I chose to use a limited palette of dioxazine purple, Naples yellow, alizarin crimson for the face with a pop or 2 of transparent orange and green gold at the end. **This is not a palette I would choose again and here's why. Naples yellow doesn't pack any punch and is opaque. This is not a great mix when you need to cover or mute the purple. Diox purple is also strong stainer, making it difficult to remove pigment. Sometimes this is ok, but didn't really help on this piece. I started this gentleman with an ink sketch that can be found in my Strathmore watercolor 400 series journal. I love the quality of paper in this journal but I wish it wou...
Tammy, nice painting, and nice youtube video of it. Can you tell me how you put the video together? I'd like to do one like this.
ReplyDeleteJim Oberst
Hi Jim and thank you Im glad you liked the video. Im a techno weenie so i kina flew by the seat of my pants when it came to putting this together. On my comp I have 2 programs that i can create movies Picassa and Windows Movie Maker. Picassa will allow you to upload directly to you tube, Windows is alot more user friendly when it comes to creating the layout. Im not sure what you have on your system so i dont know how to walk you through. But i can tell you that when uploading video to you tube you may have to overwrite the background music you choose but they will give you an option there. I hope this helps a little. Anymore questions let me know. Happy painting!
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