Notes on Jeremy Lipking's The Portrait Sketch

Jeremy Lipking is another top Alla Prima painter out there who has put out a DVD on how he paints.

I have seen some his paintings in New York and they are absolutely beautiful.
They are very delicate and in many ways his painting approach is quite similar to Richard Schmid's
In the DVD he spoke about his influences at CalArts.

Notes taken from his DVD
1) Color palette :

• Mixture: Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Alizarin Crimson (med value, cool blue for cooling colors)
• Titanium White
• Cadmium Lemon
• Cadmium Yellow
• Cadmium Orange
• Cadmium Red
• Alizarin Crimson Permanent
• Burnt Sienna
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cobalt
• Golden Green
• Viridian
• Ivory Black

his own mixture of blue allow cooling a color without changing its value too much.

2) Brushes : uses Langnickel and a few bristle.
3) Medium = 5 Part Turpentine, 1 part Stand oil. 1 part Damar . Varnish.)
3) Uses lead prime canvas so that paint can be easily applied.
3) Unlike most approach of blocking in the darks. Lipkin locks in the overall shape and prioritize planar relationship by shifting subtle color temperature .

observing the planar relationship of the figure.

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Taking Note of temperature shift all along. Drawing the shadow shapes after.