Drawing with Paint – Sarah Brock.
Sarah wanted to cover three painting techniques this week. The rub
out, the dry brush and the impasto methods.
I had done the rub out method
before but not with still life and I hit on an idea using fruit and veg. How
far do you have to go before someone recognises a chillie if you don’ paint it
red? So a blue chillie, a purple tomato? A red lemon and a green cherry, no
sketching on the canvas just apply the paint and liquin mix to the whole canvas
(this is your mid tone) and then rub away for highlights add straight colour
for your darks to produce a tonal portrait, when you mix the paint with liquin
you have a limited time to get a likeness before the paint dries.
Choose a
transparent, take off the paint with liquin and us a fan brush to blend. What
can you mix with the paint to make it smell like the fruit your painting? (I
like the idea of a smelly painting but the closest I’ve come to lemon scent car
freshener behind the lemon painting)
