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- noun art An initial
layer ofpaint , oftenmonochromatic , applied to aground as abase for subsequent layers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"John starts with a red underpainting, which is something not many artists do," said Carey Molter, director of the gallery at 271 First Ave. N. "It gives a warmth to his work, even if it's a winter scene."
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The outlines are traced and during the Renaissance, the canvas was painted with a burnt umber ground and an image made using a cloth or a brush to pull out highlights and make a high contrast underpainting called a grisaille.
Leanne Goebel: Isca Greenfield-Sanders & Marc Brandenburg in Denver Leanne Goebel 2011
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This is the monochromatic underpainting stage — nothing but watered-down sepia gouache on bristol.
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It is possible just to see it as the mottled brown underpainting that David and other eighteenth-century painters always put down when they started their paintings, and it is plausible that David's painter friends and students would have seen it that way.
James Elkins: Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings James Elkins 2011
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The outlines are traced and during the Renaissance, the canvas was painted with a burnt umber ground and an image made using a cloth or a brush to pull out highlights and make a high contrast underpainting called a grisaille.
Leanne Goebel: Isca Greenfield-Sanders & Marc Brandenburg in Denver Leanne Goebel 2011
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The grey overpainting brings the viewer to the "now" which glimmers with fl ecks of the colorful past shown in the underpainting.
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I have created a visual border by allowing the underpainting to remain untouched along the periphery of the canvas.
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There is a very colorful, noisy underpainting which represents the action and motion of these women's earlier times.
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It does appear (from comments made to the Philadelphia Inquirer, below) that the conservators painted over Eakins 'own underpainting, from which the top layers had been scrubbed away by overzealous restorers in the 1920s.
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It does appear (from comments made to the Philadelphia Inquirer, below) that the conservators painted over Eakins 'own underpainting, from which the top layers had been scrubbed away by overzealous restorers in the 1920s.
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