The Mixed Technique: Painting with Acrylic and Oil with Julia Zanes (4-week 1/7-1/28)

Hieronymus Bosch and the Pieter Bruegel (and many other Netherlandish artists ) used a technique we sometimes call the “mixed technique” because it used both egg and linseed oil.

In these classes we will appropriate this technique using acrylic paints for the first layers and oil at the end. The process involves an earth colored ground and working only with lights and darks, an ochre layer, more darks and lights with the goal of achieving a wide range of values. For the last layer a transparent glaze of oil paint is added. We look at the painting only in terms of value until the last layer which is when the color is added.

I took a class in this technique many many years ago and often still think in terms of layering.
It will be fun, not as technical as it sounds, just a nod to the tradition.