Underpainting - Grisaille

Pieter Bruegel, Anthonis van Dyck, Jan van Eyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, and many other famous artists of our history. What did all these great Old Masters have in common? Their secret is that they used a gray underpainting known as grisaille or the dead layer when creating their masterpieces!All kinds of underpainting have one thing in common. They are all made up of one hue. Wheth...