Figure and Portrait Drawing & Painting Lessons
A painting demonstration
in oil on a 14x20" panel. - 1983
I prepared a hardboard quarter inch panel by applying
at least six coats of acrylic gesso with a brush.
After letting it dry for a week, I wet sanded the surface
until it was flawlessly smooth. I toned the panel
with raw umber oil paint to which I added a bit of alkyd
medium and a little turpentine. I rubbed the surface
down with a rag until the surface was a medium light value.
I let it dry a few days. I started to paint directly,
without any preliminary drawing. I concentrated
on the central figure.
The little figure was less than six inches high.
I had so much fun with it that I finished it first.
I used both hogs bristle brushes and sable brushes in
this painting. My best sable was either a Winsor
& Newton or a Daniel Smith number four. A new
kolinsky sable is a wonderful tool, but in spite of careful
cleaning they begin to lose their quality in a week or
two. As painting medium I used linseed oil that
I thickened with lead in the sun out behind my warehouse
studio. The paint worked wonderfully well.
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