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I've been reading with interest the underpainting techniques used by some members of the Forum. Perhaps one of them could explain to me the underpainting technique of Jacques-Louis David. At the Art Institute of Chicago there is an unfinished portrait by him and the underpainting of the background and of the flesh tones is done in a light value neutral gray (grisaille). Yet the other objects in the painting, a crib and a baby's head, also the sitter's lips, are done in a light value of the body colors, not gray. What is the most common underpainting technique these days?
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Tito Champena
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