Palace Hotel Forever Painting

Oil painting on black and white photographic grisaille on canvas. It has a lot of precision work because it is made very much as a hyperrealistic painting. It is also done in the manner of the brush painter because it has many layers of glazes of different transparent colors, layer upon layer. The Grisaille and Glazes Technique: Many masters of antiquity painted the oil paintings initially all in black and white as a grisaille and all the color where added with transparent veils or glazes, layer upon layer, of oil paint, achieving an interesting color vibration, letting the previous layers transparent and obtaining a volume effect and soft gradient. The Gioconda has been shown to have more than 30 layers, almost all glazes. After using this technique in many of my paintings, I thought of using a black-and-white photograph that would act as a grisaille and paint with oil on it. I finally unite my two passions, the interesting perfection of photography and the infinite chromatism of painting.