Pencil Drawing

The main of the pencil drawing is to create a precise structure of borders between areas of highlight and light, light and halftone, halftone and shadow, and reflections.

Ink Drawing

After you have made a pencil drawing on the canvass, draw it out in ink.
Imprimatura, the first oil layer, will wash away the pencil, leaving the ink drawing as the first layer of your painting. The ink drawing remains, and the artist doesn't have to draw the composition again

Imprimatura

Imprimatura is the first oil layer in the Flemish painting technique. Imprimatura must have a neutral olive hue. The degree of darkness or lightness of imprimatura should be chosen in relation to the largest light area of the future painting

Umber Underlayer

Imprimatura is now well dried.
The technique of making this layer differs significantly from the traditional concept of oil painting: although your medium is oil paint, use it as if you were using watercolor.
Remember the golden rule: you make the next layer not to correct mistakes in the previous layer, but you make the previous layer to facilitate work in the next layer.

The basic set of paints is the following oil colors:
Flake White, Yellow Ochre Light, Red Ochre, Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Ivory Black, Madder Lake Deep.

Dead Underlayer Palette

The dead layer - is made with Flake White, light ocher, red ocher, burnt Umber, Prussian Blue and Ivory Black. The aim of this Underlayer is penumbra. The picture must look as if its objects were lit with moonlight - olive cold gray color.