Tag: highlights

Still life in black and white. A balloon, a metallic barrel and a vase of flowers. White chalk on black paper, 24x32 cm

Black and white

Still life in black and white, featuring a black balloon, a black metallic barrel and white flowers, everything in a dark room but with strong white highlights. White chalk on black paper, 24×32 cm

Yellow - room in disarray, with a bottle half-empty, a scarf forgotten on a pedestal and a lit candle coloring everything in yellow and casting huge shadows. Charcoal and white chalk on yellow paper, 32x24 cm

Yellow

A room in disarray, with a bottle half-empty, a scarf forgotten on a pedestal and a lit candle coloring everything in yellow and casting huge shadows. Charcoal and white chalk on yellow paper, 32×24 cm

Backlit girl portrait, white chalk on black paper, 24x32 cm

Backlit – girl silhouette

Backlit girl portrait or a girl in silhouette. Backlit portraits (silhouette drawings) are mysterious and attractive because of the interesting play of lights and shadows, that only suggest, but not show the entire face or figure of the subject. White chalk on black paper, 24×32 cm

Underpainting for a verdaccio self-portrait. Oils on stretched canvas, 40x40 cm

Verdaccio portrait, the underpainting

I am currently experimenting a portrait technique used by the Old Masters, called verdaccio. Basically it consists of an underpainting in tones of green (Terra Verde) serving to locate and render the highlights and shadows of the portrait in the most accurate manner, over which it would be applied the […]

A rustic setting with a glass jar of honey and a dripping wooden honey spoon. Oils on canvas panel, 24x35 cm

Dripping honey

A rustic setting with a glass jar of honey and a dripping wooden honey spoon. Oils on canvas panel, 24×35 cm