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INSTRUCTION: Lectures, demos, and on the easel critiques.ĬLASS HOURS: 9am to 4pm with lunch at 12 noon. Students will paint from the same color palette which will be provided by the atelier.(List will be forwarded to all registered students for information)Īdditional material lists will also be forwarded. Achieving a high degree of realism in your work.Execution with appropriate materials while fostering sensitivity in realization.How best to prepare the model and references to achieve the best analysis and perception.Shades from black to the lightest light.In this high intensive course, we will concentrate on the construction of a highly realist portrait in oil paints with emphasis on classic and modern techniques using light. Javier will offer personal insights in how to achieve a highly realistic portraiture using oil paints. Three crayon drawing by Marie Dauenheimer.Do you struggle with achieving a high degree of finish in your work? This intensive oil painting high realism workshop, led by Javier Arizabalo, onee of the IBEX Masters of Realism. Highlights can also be erased out used a typewriter eraser. The final stage as form is built up using terra cotta and black and white highlights are added. Second stage as Rob builds up the form using the terra cotta color and adds black. This hardens the paper and gives it a tooth so you can layer the pencil.įirst stage of Rob's demo, with figure blocked in using terra cotta Verithin pencils. The paper is prepared with a light watercolor wash in yellow ochre and sealed with a coat of amber shellac (with denatured alcohol mixed in). In black, white and terra cotta on a text weight hand made paper ( Twinrocker is ideal). The first technique utilizes hard colored pencils (Prismacolor "Verithins" work well)
Three crayon technique drawing by Robert Liberace. I will review the first technique today and the second technique tomorrow. In class Rob demonstrated two techniques for using the three crayons. "Sir Thomas Elyot" by Hans Holbein, 1527. "Young woman Looking Down" by Peter Paul Rubens, 1628. Below are some examples of how they used this technique. This technique has been used for centuries by artists such as Hans Holbein, Peter Paul Rubens and Antoine Watteau. The three colors are back, white and red (terra cotta). This past weekend I spent three days at the Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia attending a workshop with Robert Liberace on the three colored crayon technique. Highlights and details added to finished drawing.ĭetail of one of my three colored crayon drawings.įinished study using three colored crayon technique. Brushes can be used to blend and finally highlights are added using white chalk.ĭemo drawing by Robert Liberace using three colored crayon technique. As the drawing takes shape details can be added using charcoal pencils and red pastel pencils. This establishes a ground that can be rubbed into the paper and later on erased out for highlights and lighter tones. This technique is bolder and more painterly and starts by establishing a charcoal drawing and adding hints of red (terra cotta) and finally white highlights.įor this technique he suggested using a neutral beige or gray Canson Mi-Teintes drawing paper and preparing it by layering terra cotta conte or chalk. After experimenting with the three colored crayon technique using the Verithin pencils and the prepared Twinrocker paper, Rob introduced another way of working with three colored crayons.