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Published On: Oct 15, 2004 10:50 PM
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Published On: Oct 15, 2004 10:50 PM
JOHN SINGER SARGENT'S PAINTING NOTES
Painting is an interpretation of
tone.
...Keep the planes free and simple, drawing a full brush down the whole contour of a cheek.
...Always paint one thing into another and not side by side until they touch.
...The thicker your paint—the more your color flows.
...Simplify, omit all but the most essential elements—values, especially the values. You must clarify the values.
...The secret of painting is in the half tone of each plane, in economizing the accents and in the handling of the lights.
...You begin with the middle tones and work up from it .... so that you deal last with your lightest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
...Paint in all the half tones and the generalized passages quite thick.
...It is impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong.
Naples Yellow Yellow Ochre Ochre dew (English Red) Red Ochre, Vermillion Ivory or Coal Black Prussian Blue.
...Keep the planes free and simple, drawing a full brush down the whole contour of a cheek.
...Always paint one thing into another and not side by side until they touch.
...The thicker your paint—the more your color flows.
...Simplify, omit all but the most essential elements—values, especially the values. You must clarify the values.
...The secret of painting is in the half tone of each plane, in economizing the accents and in the handling of the lights.
...You begin with the middle tones and work up from it .... so that you deal last with your lightest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
...Paint in all the half tones and the generalized passages quite thick.
...It is impossible for a painter to try to repaint a head where the understructure was wrong.
Naples Yellow Yellow Ochre Ochre dew (English Red) Red Ochre, Vermillion Ivory or Coal Black Prussian Blue.
1. Painting
is an interpretation of tone. Colour drawn with
a brush.
2. Keep the planes
free and
simple,
drawing a full brush down the whole contour of a cheek.
3. Always paint one thing into another and not side
by side until they touch.
4. The thicker your paint—the more your color
flows.
5.
Simplify,
omit all but the most essential
elements—values,
especially the values. You must clarify the values.
6. The secret of painting is in the
half tone of
each plane, in economizing the accents and in the handling of the
lights.
7. You begin
with the middle tones and work up from it . . . so that you deal last with your
lightest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
8. Paint in all the half tones and the generalized
passages quite thick.
9. It is impossible for a painter to try to repaint
a head where the understructure was wrong.
SARGENT'S
PALETTE
Silver White
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Ochre dew (English Red)
Red Ochre, Vermillion
Ivory or Coal Black
Prussian Blue.
Silver White
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Ochre dew (English Red)
Red Ochre, Vermillion
Ivory or Coal Black
Prussian Blue.
Posted: Fri - September 26, 2003 at 12:24 PM