Vile opened this issue on Oct 22, 2008 · 15 posts
momodot posted Thu, 23 October 2008 at 11:41 AM
Even on the broad volumes the creases are very tight and sharp... only later did people start to soften and broaden the folds in the large plains keeping the narow sharp creasing for right in the fold points or anchors. Here the light and shade are painted in with monochrome... first cross hatched ink on the gesso then a monochrome shading layer... the color was applied over this transparently like hand tiniting a black and white photograph... in the earlier periods the lightest part of the fold was represented with paint made of actuall gold particals since those were considered fancier and more luxorious then highlights of "washed out" color.