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played when we were kids. Twere used in my painting Playing Monopoly.
The dimensions of the piece are 60 by 48 inches.
When I use smaller canvases, especially when
doing portraits, I’ll stretch my own with portrait
linen, size with rabbit skin glue and prime with
oil base primer.
I used a variety of brushes to include a 2-inch
regular house paintbrush for laying in color
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STAGE 1 blocks, a variety of filberts, rounds and flats
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GE 1

SKETCHING AND down to a tiny brush for small detail work.
BLOCKING I use Escoda brushes and Rosemary mongoose
The first stage of the painting is brushes. My medium of choice is walnut oil,
getting the composition mapped
out in vine charcoal and laying in only when necessary. Gamsol by Gamblin is
some basic fields of color in a thin used to clean brushes between colors.
wash that I hoped would lend a
sense of color harmony to the
piece. I also wanted to have the
eye connection of the youngest
granddaughter in black tights
to be engaged with the viewer.
Complementary Color Fields
visually resonate/vibrate

This is a sampling of complementary color fields
STAGE 2 with similar values using the following colors:
CHECKING
PROPORTIONS » Alizarin crimson
In stage two I’m starting » Quinacridone magenta
to make corrections to the » Chromium green deep
drawing with paint as well » Sap green
» Cadmium deep red
as defining the darkest » Cadmium orange red
values, such as in the hair, » Cadmium yellow deep
bodies, and carpet. My » Yellow ochre
focus at this point is on the Others include:
bodies to make sure they » Ultramarine blue
are proportionally correct. » Cadmium red light
» Quiacridone purple
» Flake white or zinc white
» Indian yellow
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