Oil Sketch on Watercolor Paper
 

All of this talk recently about paper has infected me as well. Below is a demonstration of an oil sketch of my daughter Eva at 4

I

Working from a reference photo, the drawing is blocked in using burnt umber and developed until the contrast is dark and strong.

If I were painting a more formal portrait I

Before I start

Building up the dry underdrawing in white is the most difficult and time consuming stage of the portrait. In this case, I

If I were a teacher I

Rembrandt used very thick lead-based white paint ground to his specifications at the local molenaar (miller). I

While I

Looking carefully at my daughter from life, (it