Abbé Charles Michel de l’Epee

This is a “direct” painting. The way I do painting is done in a single application. That means using a one-opaque painting technique. Painting from light to dark. Vary brushstrokes, thick, thin, short, long marks, etc. Many scrubbings in different directions. I do ‘scumbling’ with a dry brush. That means to soften the color of a painted area by overlaying parts with opaque color applied lightly with an almost dry brush. I start with painting the background to the foreground. I mixed the colors primarily from the palette. Direct painting has been used by the Fauves and the Abstract Expressionists. This type of painting relies a bit of planning because I think about forms and colors simultaneously, in other words, to work on all directions at the same time.
This is Abbe Charles Michel de l’Epee (born November 25, 1712, in Versailles, France; died December 23, 1789, in Paris, France.)
He was the Founder of the first public school for the deaf in France.