Caravaggio Inspired

I love the Italian painter Caravaggio – his use of light and shade (known as chiaroscuro), and his method of painting first in black and white (known as grisaille) before building colour on top with washes. I found that the grisaille style really suited my preferred method of painting.

This was actually my first real oil painting. I bought a great book on how to paint like the old masters and just worked my way through it.

Medium: Oil on Canvas

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