PRESTAGE
Preparing the Canvas

Two Choices
1. Untoned Ground
2. Tone Ground
Tint or Tone (set the mood)
Color Flat or Gradation
Fields of Different Colors

LAYERING APPROACH
UNDERDRAWING
• Drawing direct on the canvas
o Done with confidence taken from your multiple sketches, studies, and word sketches or illuminated memory
Or

• Transferring
o Create a tracing from a final drawing or flat design to use as a wireframe – for a compositional element
UNDERPAINTING
Wash Drawing is the missing link between the Academy is a central underpinning for Impressionist work for someone who desires more structure or someone who desires expressive freedom.
It’s the foundation of the work which is often so beautiful that it can be ends in itself. Two approaches:
• Monochromatic – to create a Value Scale (washes for setting the foundation for light and dark to create form as done in the Academy)
Or
• Large Spots of Color – to create a Value Scale or overall Mood (washes setting the foundation of light through color Impressionist)

GLAZES
Glazes are transparent or translucent pigments with a medium to influence the overall tone or mood. Can come after an underdrawing or an underpainting.