Chiaroscuro

Inspiration board for ideas: CSD Portrait inspiration on Pinterest

ART 1: Begin with Strong Lights and Darks (from good photography) and use either graphite, graphite and charcoal, charcoal on white (or choice of colored paper) or white pencil on black paper

 

 

ART 2: Once you have mastered strong value, we move to color. Colored pencil hands using a Grisaille Underpainting (values established underneath) 

HW exercise watch video and use this technique to illustrate your hand in your sketchbook:

Inspiration!!! CSD’s own Francesca Norman’s RYB hands accepted into the prestigious Young American Talent show

Prof Robson’s Demo:

HANDS Ideas for poses

Not my students but a great example of RBY Portraits: (perspective and the figure) *using primary colors only, figure/ground, foreshortening, emphasis, realism

  

Arman Rea 10th

Ana Bruce 10th

RBY (prisma) demo and explaination RBY Portrait (prisma) 

Starting with Magenta instead, then layering yellow and blue

other techniques for colored pencil:

Portraits in prisma color on black matt board

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PASTEL:

Verdaccio is usually a greenish underpainting technique used by early Italian fresco painters. The artist establishes all the values in the underpainting technique. Several transparent over paintings are then applied, achieving a realistic skin toned painting that glows.

Using Black and Green as a base, lighter colors are glazed over in either Pastel seen below, or colored pencil

*Here is a technique that utilizes a great deal of “chiaroscuro” extreme darks and lights the   Fabulous Illustrator: Marco Mazzoni:

portrait-chiaroscuro-in-colored-pencil his tutorial is on Domestica and you can follow along. Login details are on Google Classroom.

 

 

Francesca Norman 11th

   

Gracie Bruce 10th

This technique is done on Sanded Pastel paper with Pastel Pencils. I have a tutorial for this as well on Google Classroom

PAINTING:

Once you get the hang of layering primary colors you might try watercolor glazes: Unlike the previous examples that start with black, this portrait has been painted with layers of Yellow Ochre, red (Alizarin Crimson and Permanent Red) and blue (Ultramarine Blue and Prussian Blue). Yellow Ochre is the most opaque color, and the blue and red pigments used are more transparent. Therefore, the first layer to be applied was Yellow Ochre.”

Excerpt From: Pelissier, Sandrine. “Fearless Watercolor for Beginners.” iBooks. Step by step layering

or straight watercolor like Watercolor_portraiture

 Try this in egg tempera like Prof Robson’s eye example 

Egg tempera begins with an ink underpainting (sometimes)

 

Last choice is painting with acrylic in layers like artist Micah Ganske

 

Master Artist to use this technique: MAXFIELD PARRISH