This recent portrait commission was of an ancestor of the client and the brief was to create a portrait with a certain age to it. I decided to use the painting technique called grisaille (grey) as an underpainting and then add glazes for colour. The following slide show shows the progress from start to finish of the grisaille technique.

The glazes are not my usual painting technique so I am doing lots of tests with different mixtures of paint and glazing medium and slow dri medium for acrylics. Oil paint takes a up to 2 days to dry so there is plenty of time to get glazes perfect. Not so with acrylic paint especially in a warm studio.

I’ll post more images of the glazes as I complete them.