Sunday, September 17, 2017

Great-Grandma's Chair, Step 3

The burnt-umber underpainting

The next step was to get rid of the charcoal and make the drawing permanent with burnt umber.  So with a rag in my left hand and the brush in my right, I very carefully wipe off the charcoal, just a little bit at a time, and then paint in the lines. Getting charcoal into the paint is a big no-no. Then I added some values following the original photo. I now have a good sense of where I am going.

I decided to deal with the stone fireplace later with paint.

The burnt-umber underpainting

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