Upstairs Art Gallery and Studios
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Chiaroscuro Technique
What makes the Chiaroscuro technique unique?
(opposite: self portrait using the chiaroscuro technique by Rodney Swansborough)
Each artist looks for a medium which best suits their artistic expression and which they feel doesn't compromise their creativity. To use a medium which expresses and captures the innate creativity of the artist and which permits the artist to convey this expression to others is of fundamental importance. Why use watercolour if it doesn't enhance the artist's creative expression or use oils if they compromise the nuances that artist wishes to express?
Every artist needs the medium best suited to their own creative expression and style. When this is found, the artist is able to uncompromisingly convey all the nuances and aspects of their artistic expression. The chiaroscuro technique as I have developed it, provides me with the opportunity to express in my portraiture and life art, all the nuances and subtleties of light and shadows present on the face and body.
The chiaroscuro technique allows full tonal interpretation of these nuances as found in the delicate and subtle changes of light and dark on the human form. This technique enables me to capture and convey these subtleties in an exciting and uncompromising way.
posted by Ozswanny # Saturday, July 26, 2008 
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I think your technique is amazing. I called into your studio and gallery and could not believe that the effects of chiaroscuro were so subtle and three-dimensional.
Keep up the good work Rodney!
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Keep up the good work Rodney!
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