A 3 Hour Workshop Demonstration by
HUIHAN LIU
Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America
Artist Member of the California Art ClubFechin Institute / Donner Ranch
San Cristobal, New Mexico
July 10, 2002
Huihan's attitude toward the drawing is that it should only be used as a guide, and should not be so precise in details that it inhibits the artist from working over it and blending the shapes into one another.
He begins his painting by finding the large masses of value and painting them together. He proposes working in only two or three values at the start: define the breaks along the core shadows between the light planes and the shadow, or dark planes. If the form or design warrants it, lay in a middle value as well.
Here we see him blending the shadow side of the face into the shadowed wall behind the model, and defining some of the form by painting further areas of background up to it.
Here is a closer look at the initial value block-in of the face.
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