Step 7: Define Significant Landmarks
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The Layout
(Steps 1 through 7)
What the reader will find on these pages is, in fact, the very
painting approach communicated to me by Samuel Edmund Oppenheim
at the Art Students League some thirty-five years ago. I have
dressed it up a bit and added a few frills, but it is the same
direct, simple approach Mr. Oppenheim demonstrated for us in
those years. We begin by making a simple drawing, or "layout"
with the brush... |
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| Now take a smaller brush — a no. 2 bristle
filbert with a darker neutral (Neutral 7) to carefully pinpoint
the most important landmarks: the pupils of the eyes, the eyelids,
the corners of the eyes. the eyebrows, the nostrils, the corners
of the mouth, the division between the lips, etc., etc. Also
significant details in the hair and the garment. These precise
notes on your layout 'nail down' the specifics of your subject.
Of course these marks will be obliterated by the tonal paint
which will immediately follow, but these landmarks will fix
themselves in your memory. |
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