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  • This layer modified the ground color, making it a more appropriate undercolor for Hayman's painting technique. 3 It is probable that the canvas was prepared by a colorman or other supplier, as the Foundling Museum collection has another painting, from the same period but by another artist, with identical ground and toning layers.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • One of my favorite frogs – the black blotches seem to float above the metallic orange undercolor.

    Vivarium work 2007

  • One of my favorite frogs – the black blotches seem to float above the metallic orange undercolor.

    Frogger’s BBQ 2007

  • The brown skin came taut over her cheekbones when she smiled and the undercolor showed.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • The brown skin came taut over her cheekbones when she smiled and the undercolor showed.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • The brown skin came taut over her cheekbones when she smiled and the undercolor showed.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

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