| Mr Seracini said Da Vinci created the under-drawing as an underpainting because he used a brush and a mixture of lampblack and watery glue. |
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| The works float in discreet white frames to expose torn edges, staple marks and copious layers of underpainting visible around the rim. |
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| The paint is buttery and opaque, crisp and decisive, and there appears to be very little underpainting. |
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| This is the explanation for the pattern of underpainting in simple areas of pure tone, pure lights and darks. |
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| There are panels explaining pentimenti and underpainting, why paintings look the way they do, all using actual objects from the collection. |
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| In other cases, a dense overlay of solid-color enamel obscures the underpainting. |
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| However, careful observation will show that much of the color has been applied on top of underpainting that was black, or at least very dark. |
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| The outermost paint layers pull away in certain areas to reveal the underpainting. |
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| You can also let some of that underpainting show through in some areas of your painting for an interesting effect. |
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| He draws the projected image, turns the lights back on and slowly brings the painting up from a monochrome to a colored underpainting. |
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| Sadly, the good vibes wore off very quickly as we became depressed by the gauzy colours, dark underpainting and lackluster watercolours. |
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| I got the underpainting done today, experiencing the old feeling that a nice fresh drawing was being submerged in a more or less monotone drabness. |
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| Dramatically cropped by the edges of the canvas, the three dominating shapes obscure almost all traces of the beige, blue and brown gestural underpainting. |
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| Another feature adding to the dynamism of the sketch is the underpainting, which is applied in vigorous parallel strokes and allowed to show through. |
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| Indeed, technical analysis has revealed pinholes and incised lines in the underpainting that are evidence of a process involving transfer drawings. |
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| This painting has both a landscape and figural feel, as a faint green underpainting pokes tenuously through a peach-colored second ground that has the tactility of flesh. |
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| He would start with a stenciled acrylic underpainting and finish by making marks with the chalk and charcoal shells. |
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| Palma il Giovane had talked of Titian's vigorous underpainting, the reds, blacks, and yellows, and of his predilection for using a palette knife. |
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| During this period, De Niro developed a vocabulary of broad, telegraphic strokes and dragged applications of wet paint on wet underpainting. |
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| Kane's first assignment was to assist Leigh in the underpainting for the mountain gorilla diorama. |
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| I allowed the underpainting to show through, and it became part of the design, adding texture and richness. |
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| Sgraffito and surface attrition are used to reveal successive layers of underpainting and capture the essential characteristics of the landscape. |
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| Similarly, in the distance, to the left of the canoe slipping down the face of the rapids, appears the underpainting of a bateau that matches the image in his field sketch. |
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