Anatomy of a Painting    
     
The Art of Bill Angresano
1) The Story of "The Standard Bearer for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel"
2) The Painting of the Prophet "Elijah"
3) The Painting "Our Lady of Mount Carmel"
4) The Anatomy of a Painting
5) The Artist, Bill Angresano		    
     
 

The first step is for the artist to do multiple "thumbnail" drawings for design and placement of shapes.

     
  Then the artist does a charcoal rendition to the size of the painting.
     
    He makes additional studies of elements, a model if necessary, then the charcoal "cartoon," color studies to workout time of day and color, and then transfers the drawing to canvas ...
     
  and paints the final piece. A larger version of the painting, Elijah, can be seen on the Mr. Angresano's bio page.