The work you are showing us is absolutely magnificient, spechless to be able to find more beautiful words, una vera meraviglia per il cuore! Please don’t stop to share with us such treasures in the future. Thank you very , very much.

@baldassinifineart8068

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your generous words Adelina. I am planning to create more video demonstrations this spring. P

@adelinal673

3 жыл бұрын

@@baldassinifineart8068 We should thank you :), I will watch them with great pleasure and admiration.

I just found you, thank you very much for your very helpful videos 🙌🌷

So interesting, thank you Paul.

@baldassinifineart8068

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. -P

Thank You Maestro.

@baldassinifineart8068

4 жыл бұрын

Very welcome Bozena. -P

Amazing

@baldassinifineart8068

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Fiona. -P

Hi sir, I'm new to your channel. I watched because I never understood the use or impact of underpainting in a painting. What does it do to it? Thanks! Your work is stunning!

@baldassinifineart8068

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer to work out all design and compositional issues before I start painting. The underpainting serves to do just that plus establishes a value structure to which I can match my overpainting color mixtures. It's also a very economical working method since, using a special medium, I can thinly apply shadow tones over already dark passages, and then apply velaturas -a translucent form of a glaze - that, along with scumbling, can be used to integrate or modify the layers of paint. The result is a luminous surface of realistic light and shadow. -P

Beautiful! How do you decide on the color of an undertone for a painting?

@baldassinifineart8068

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Virginia and thank you for your comment. This is from my as yet unpublished book: There are many colors that can be used for a successful underpainting - its up to the individual painting style. The old masters made use available pigments of the day, mostly earth ochers and umbers. After years of experimentation I now use only two underpainting colors: Quinacridone Magenta, and Raw Umber­. Both are lightfast, transparent, fast driers and offer a complete tonal range from very pale to rich and deep. Which color I use to create my underpainting is usually, but not always, determined by the subject matter. For example, for a landscape that has dominant greens, and most floral subject matter, I always utilize a magenta underpainting. A variety of thin translucent milky green glazes or “velaturas” applied over a magenta underpainting makes the greens in a landscape really vibrate as pink shades peek through here and there. A floral composition with dominant pink, red or purplish blossoms can be completed effectively and convincingly with the same kind of thin and thicker paint application and brushwork to model the petals which lets some of the magenta underpainting peek through. Where white or yellow blossoms, or even the blues of hydrangeas dominate, I would almost always use raw umber and overpaint accordingly. The browns of the raw umber underpainting produce an overall warmish tone and serve to facilitate and enhance shadow treatments. The luminous optical effect of the light entering the paint film, reaching the white ground and bouncing back through the translucent layers to the viewer’s eyes is sublime. There are added bonuses: the underpainting unifies the colors, most of which can be applied very thinly, especially in the shadows, followed by translucent mid-tones, with only the more opaque highlights applied thicker. And, it doesn’t take much material to create a painting in this manner, so there are economical benefits also: since less paint is used to create a work the savings can be used to purchase paint manufactured from higher quality and/or more desirable pigments.

@virginiaperez7102

3 жыл бұрын

@@baldassinifineart8068 thank you SO much! So kind of you

Hi Paul, what are you using with the raw umber for the underpainting?

@baldassinifineart8068

3 жыл бұрын

Denise, I think you mean "how do I dilute the paint to apply it?” I use Weber Odorless Mineral Spirits to dilute and thin it out as necessary to make make marks and washes. I use my brushes to draw with also, as well as paint. Hope that helps. - P.

@welshdenise

3 жыл бұрын

@@baldassinifineart8068 Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Thank you Paul, something more added to my list. The underpainting is superb. I'm learning so much from you. Take care.

Is this oils??

@baldassinifineart8068

3 ай бұрын

Yes Beth, all of my work is in oils. -P