Autumn
Breeze.... a portrait of Manu
by Marissa Oosterlee
Materials used: Iwata cm-sb, Etac FX sepia smoke, faber castell eraser pencil, Schoellershammer board. Size: 20 x 26,5 cm This sepia por- trait has been created especially for the article, to give more people a better insight on how to work with transparent paint only and to work with the white of the paper, in order to create contrast. Of course there are many ways that lead to Rome, but I find this method very comfortable, as you can go slow but get fast results. If you work ac- cording this method, you should be able to create a portrait within one day. There are many ways to create a good sketch, like a light-table if you work on paper, a projector, the grid-method, graphite paper and in this case, a black and white copy.
To make a sketch with black and white copies, you cut out the dark areas. Don’t forget to mark the edges and make a passep- artout with neutral tape. Neutral is needed in order to fight si- multaneous contrast. By marking the edges, you can be sure that your copies will line up with the sketch. The benefit of using this method is that you don’t have any pencil-lines to get rid of, which can be annoying when you work with transparent paint because they shine through the paint when they are drawn too dark. Also you can spray back the sketch if you got lost some- where. Paper cuts out easier then acetate, but acetate has the benefit that you can see through the mask and it is stronger than paper as well, in case you need to use it multiple times. Acetate is a transparent, non-sticky foil that you can break on a cutting-line, without cutting through the acetate. 80 micron is ideal to cut out complicated masks.
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