The Mixed Technique: A Painting Class with Julia Zanes

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.