{"id":390,"date":"2010-08-04T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:44:28","slug":"the-artists-eye-oil-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-oil-on-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Artist&#8217;s Eye&#8221; &#8211; oil on canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-underpaint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-391\" title=\"The Artist's Eye - sketch and underpainting\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-underpaint.jpg\" alt=\"The Artist's Eye, oil on canvas by Bj. deCastro\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-underpaint.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-underpaint-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the canvas is Gesso covered and dried. I begin by sketching right on the canvas with charcoal.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I begin the underpainting process mixing the colors with Turpenoid to a &#8216;watercolor&#8217; consistancy. The entire canvas is covered with this thin oily mix in base and complimentary colors. Some values are emphasized to keep balance between light and dark structure.<\/p>\n<p>When I have enough paint on the canvas as to make the initial charcoal sketch difficult to see, then I put my brushes down and let the painting cure for the next step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 After the canvas is Gesso covered and dried. I begin by sketching right on the canvas with charcoal. Next, I begin the underpainting process mixing the colors with Turpenoid to a &#8216;watercolor&#8217; consistancy. The entire canvas is covered with this thin oily mix in base and complimentary colors. Some values are emphasized to keep &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2010\/08\/the-artists-eye-oil-on-canvas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-making-of-paintings","category-the-artists-eye-painting-by-bjdecastro","tag-oil-paintings","tag-the-making-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}