The Warlock of the Night
Size: 50×70
Surface: Canvas
Mediums: Oil paint
Date: 16/11/2025
This piece has a different process in the begining than others. I tried to to do my underpainting sketch like how Kim Diaz Holm (@/denungeherrholm on his socials) does his ink monsters which inspired me a lot for this painting. They also did an album cover art for Sólstafir’s album “Svartir Sandar” which made me a metalhead. This painting belongs to the serie called “CMYK Chronicals”. Here is the process:
First, i start my ébauche underpaint which literally means a sketch underpainting with a different manner. I splash some diluted lean paint to see what kind of image come out of it.
And then, i do a rendering in grisaille which is an grey scale painting. Grisaille is K(keycolour) in CMYK.
Then, i start to define some basic shapes and forms with highlights and shadows to carve out the image that appeared to me. This is like second layer ébauche for me.
After the grisaille, i start to do fun part of painting which is glazing. In this painting, strated with some Cyan from CMYK.
Then, i followed it up with Magenta from CMYK.
Finally, i finished it of with a lot of Yellow from CMYK with a little bit of touch ups. I had to brighten the red tones up with cadmium red deep and withsome phisycally mixed transparent oranges since they got lost in the highlighting process.
