How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: A Painting in Progress
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How to Paint Your Own Vermeer:
A Painting in Progress
(look at images from this CD)
Author: Jonathan Janson (view author bio)
Format: 1 CD-rom (text + 180 hi-res images)
Publishing date: 2009
Price: $23.00
Price: $20.00
Following the methods and materials described in How to Paint Your Own Vermeer, the CD-rom contains over 180 high-quality digital images which exhaustively document the painting of a hypothetical Vermeer created by the author. While the book permits you to comprehend the intricacies of Vermeer's daily painting practices and background information, the CD-rom allows you see that information put into practice.
The easy-to-use browser format documents every phase of the painting process accompanied by comments on each progressive image.
In How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: A Painting in Progress, the viewer may observe the painting as it progresses step-by-step from the stretching of the canvas to the final touches through high-quality images arranged in sequential order.
How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: A Painting in Progress
Author: Jonathan Janson
Format: 1 CD-rom (text + 180 high-resolution, sequential images)
Publishing date: 2009
Price: $20.00
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In the CD-rom How to Paint Your Own Vermeer: A Painting in Progress, the viewer may observe a hypothetical Vermeer composition as it progresses step-by-step from the stretching of the canvas to the final touches executed according to the detailed guidelines given in the book. High-quality images, arranged in sequential order, let you follow every significant passage of the three-step painting program used by Vermeer and many seventeenth-century Dutch fijnschilders (fine painters).
With the easy-to-use browser format the fundamental phases of Vermeer's painting technique are outlined and each progressive image is commented.
Below are four scaled-down images which illustrate the basic painting procedure.
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After the canvas has been correctly grounded and given a light brown tone, the so-called underdrawing is executed with the finest brush available in light, delicate strokes of raw umber with a bit of W&N Liquin painting medium scarcely diluted with turpentine. The underpainting serves as a guide to the successive stages of the painting and fixes the definitive idea of the composition on the canvas.
2.
The monochrome underpainting is executed in a firm but brisk manner with fine-tipped brushes. The underpainting serves as a compositional and chiaroscural guide for the application of the final color and glazes. It plays a vital and complex role in the finished work and must be executed according to traditional standards.
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Once the underpainting is completely dry, the working-up stage is begun. Full color is applied to the background areas first. The figure and still life will be painted last so that their color and tone can be properly gauged in relation to the background grays which, in effect, determine the quality of the light which flows through the window.
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The entire painting has been worked up with a limited palette analogous to the palette used by Vermeer and his fellow painters. At this point, the blue pale wrap worn by the model is glazed with pure ultramarine blue glaze on the lower half of this passage. This typical glazing procedure intensifies the wrap's local color and creates a unique, brilliant shine-through effect that cannot be created by any mixture of opaque paints. Vermeer used a similar technique in the blue turban of the Girl with a Pearl Earring.