36 Hour Classes
INSTRUCTOR: Johannes Landman, Artisan
COURSE: Painting in Grisaille and Color using Chiaroscuro Technique
PROJECT: Two Italian Baroque Portrait Paintings (THIS CLASS IS FULL)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course introduces techniques to increase the ability to master the use of color and tone to complete portraits in both chiaroscuro and color. Two portraits will be done of the same subject in “grisaille and color” on silk prepared on a wood panel. Students will learn how to treat the surface of the panel by adhering silk, which will be coated with the precise amount of gesso. This will give a similar surface of linen to scale. This course will build on the principals of: panel preparation with silk; practice sketch of the portrait; grisaille using two colors to achieve a monochromatic tonal range; type of brush strokes—for example, scumbling and glazing; and ala prima (direct painting).
A grisaille is a monochrome painting executed in
grey tone values ranging from dark to light, transparent
to opaque, and from flat to reflective. Grisaille paintings
resemble the drawing normally in monochrome that
artists from the Renaissance were trained to produce.
Students will complete a preliminary sketch in pencil to
introduce the grisaille and complete the painting using
thick/thin and blending techniques. For our second
project, the color painting will have a similar approach
to the grisaille introducing three or four more colors,
replacing tone with color.
TIME: 36 Hours. Completion is likely.
POWER TOOLS: None
SKILL LEVEL: Advanced. Students should have a working familiarity with oil painting and have some experience with simple color mixing and other basic painting skills.
MATERIALS FEE: $135 to be collected at the school. Frame is not included.