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Materials for lesson #6:Pigments: White, Black, Cadmium Red Light, Yellow OchrePainting surface (any)A selection of brushesGamsol / Gum Turpentine / Spike Lavender Oil (use of solvent is not integral)

Painter Skills Drills:Lesson #1 - how to paint an underpainting and avoid common mistakesLesson #2 - color theory and mixingLesson #3 - how to paint a grisaille and control valuesLesson #4 - the tricolor palette and chroma distributionLesson #5 - the complimentary color palette and chroma neutralizationLesson #6 - figure painting and the Zorn paletteLesson #6.5 - figure painting and the Zorn palette 2Lesson #7 - charcoal sketching and value compressionLesson #8 - the benefits of palette knife sketchingLesson #9 - how to glaze with color on a grisailleLesson #10 - how to design a composition

Reference image is attached. Enjoy!

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Figure Painting and the Zorn Palette

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Jeffrey Fischman

i am doing this exercise at home using an outline of the jpg file you provide on an untinted canvas. I just finished the background using solvent thinned paint and i can see the dark colored background (the walls in the "cave") are the right value but I made the lighter central area of background about 2-3 steps too light. It is the next day -- what do I do? overpaint it with a brown monochrome transparent layer (using solvent to thin the new layer and make it transparent -- or using medium to make the layer transparent since it is a second layer is should be fatter than the base layer ) or do I put a new layer (opaque + some medium) to just re-cover the area that is too light). The painting is dry at this time (24 hours later)