04-21-2019, 08:09 AM
Curious to see where the painting goes.
If you're concerned about the umber fully drying you could stiffen in and it should be more than dry in like 12 hours.
Will you be using the same pigments as the study? Generally it's a good practice to try and make your studies and final painting as similar in materials as possible while still being practical. If so, the palette seems a bit weirdly balanced, going super opaque with titanium white and cad yellow but then turning transparent. It could be a good idea to go for a palette that harmonises better, substituting the cad yellow for just an ochre.
If you're going to be using a transparent black mix you'll probably want to approach the painting from dark to light, being very conservative in your painting as you move forward. Because it's so small, it's going to be difficult getting the transparent darks to remain clean when working on it, any titanium or cadmium pigment practically destroying their depth.
If this was mine, I'd spend a lot of time thinking about how I'd be able to control the paint on that small of a scale. I'd maybe go for an absorbent ground just to keep things steady with all the fine details. I'd probably add a lot of marble dust or any other coarse material to the ground to give it a mild sandpaper like tooth. Maybe using a resin in the paint, like copal, mastic or damar, would help keep it from gliding too much. It really depends on your personal technique but it is worth contemplating how to keep it from becoming one big slip and slide.
Anyway, good luck and godspeed
If you're concerned about the umber fully drying you could stiffen in and it should be more than dry in like 12 hours.
Will you be using the same pigments as the study? Generally it's a good practice to try and make your studies and final painting as similar in materials as possible while still being practical. If so, the palette seems a bit weirdly balanced, going super opaque with titanium white and cad yellow but then turning transparent. It could be a good idea to go for a palette that harmonises better, substituting the cad yellow for just an ochre.
If you're going to be using a transparent black mix you'll probably want to approach the painting from dark to light, being very conservative in your painting as you move forward. Because it's so small, it's going to be difficult getting the transparent darks to remain clean when working on it, any titanium or cadmium pigment practically destroying their depth.
If this was mine, I'd spend a lot of time thinking about how I'd be able to control the paint on that small of a scale. I'd maybe go for an absorbent ground just to keep things steady with all the fine details. I'd probably add a lot of marble dust or any other coarse material to the ground to give it a mild sandpaper like tooth. Maybe using a resin in the paint, like copal, mastic or damar, would help keep it from gliding too much. It really depends on your personal technique but it is worth contemplating how to keep it from becoming one big slip and slide.
Anyway, good luck and godspeed
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