The Grisaille Technique

Put a bit more wrinkles in the nose
You find our a white horse isn’t really very white .

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Yes, it’s becoming a little more coloured around the nose and eyes.
Very realistic. Almost like a photograph.

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Thank you JBR I find that putting shadows in give a more realistic effect .

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Adding more detail

That looks great. Is it finished now? It certainly looks like it is.

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Thank you JBR it’s nearly finished but there just a few tweaks left .
The trouble is it’s in oils and I have to wait a bit until it dries in some places others wise disasters happen !

I’ve just shown this to Marge and she is veeerrrry impressed!
She doesn’t like oils for the reasons you mention (taking ages to dry) but used acrylics and water colours in preference.

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I wish Marge would post her art work on the members art work thread !
I am in a messy state with sticky oiled works half done collecting dust and hairs so am going back to my usual topic
Trying the Grisaille technique again .
Underpainting in acrylics.

Muddy, I’ve asked Marge to send me some pictures of her work with explanations of technique.
I’m not sure where to post them, but I’ll try to post them in a related “Marge’s painting” sub-section, assuming I can get this thing to work.

You could do that or you could put them in Members Art Work

Oh you’re asking the wrong person, Muddy! I have problems navigating this forum as things are; trying to find a particular section is even more of a challenge. As I’ve said before: too many sections, sub-sections and sub-sub sections. My tiny mind cannot cope.

I know JBR
The only way I can find my own threads is by looking at activity .
Sometimes not even then.

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A bit more

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That is amazing, Muddy!

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Thank you Mags
Added some mane

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Wow! The mane looks so natural now!

Back on this thread

The reason why one should not do the Grisaille technique in blue !

( Grisaille means grey )

I did this a good while back and decided to put in the colour and now I have a green horse !

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So have to do it all over again

I quite like that, Muddy. :grinning:

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Trying to tone down the green

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