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kissing practice, a painting

KISSING PRACTICE - A DEMONSTRATION PAINTING - PART 2

'Realism'

In Fig.5 I have brought some of the highlights forward by use of a higher value blue-gray and
added some wings. This stage you could call 'molding' the forms or to use its proper terminology
you could call it the application of chiaroscuro. This was the method made famous by the
Renaissance painter Carravaggio and copied in the north by painters such as Rembrandt, Rubens
and Vermeer.

Fig. 5

Adding wings and cool grays

Fig. 6

Scumbling with some highlights

In Fig.6 I have begun to add some warmer tones and some additional compositional props such as
the blue swirling cloth, which was a much-loved device by painters to the time.

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