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
Tag: highlights
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 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
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 […]
Dripping honey
A rustic setting with a glass jar of honey and a dripping wooden honey spoon. Oils on canvas panel, 24×35 cm