Working Up (opwerken)
Justin Wood
The live demos were held live on zoom on August 9 & 16, 2021 and a recording of that zoom experience.
Extended! The recordings are now available to view through August 31, 2025. Extended!
Note: These demos were not part of the Patreon event with Justin Wood on August 5th, 2021. To learn more or gain access to that event, you need to be signed up at the Creator or Collector level. Please visit our Patreon page.
Demo registration notes:
- Demo cost: $95
- Registration includes both of the recorded demos.
- August 9th was the “finishing layer 1” demo – a 4 hour experience including demo, process discussion, Q&A.
- August 16th will be the “finishing layer 2” demo – a 5 hour experience including demo, process discussion, Q&A
- Upon purchase a confirmation email will include the links to the two recordings, a dropbox folder with process images and two pdfs with notes compiled by Demo monitor Ya Chin Chang.
- Registrants will be available to review the recordings through August 31, 2025.
- There are no refunds, transfers, or exchanges once payment is made.
- The live event and recordings are for paid registrants only. Please, out of respect for the artist, do not share this content with others. Justin Wood will continue to be paid for every registration. We will keep the content available available for purchase and viewing through August 31, 2024. Extended!
Course Description
The Dutch still life painters of the 17th century generally painted in three layers. Once their drawing was finished the artist proceeded with the dead coloring (dood-verf), a thin transparent layer of paint that described the various elements in the composition in very basic terms. This layer could be painted in color or in monochrome. Once completed and dry, the picture was ready for the finishing layer or layers. This ‘working up’ (opwerken) stage developed the forms indicated in the dead coloring or underpainting layer to a higher degree of finish through a combination of opaque and transparent paint applications. Depending on the subject and/or intent of the artist, a following layer of paint could be added to further refine a given part or subject.
In this demonstration, I will show how I have adopted this ‘working up’ method to making my own pictures. In this two part series, you will see how I execute the two finishing layers on an already completed underpainting. In short, I will show how I go from the underpainting to the finish.
