Flemish painting is considered one of the first experiences of artists in writing oil paintings. The authorship of this style, as well as the invention of oil paints themselves, is attributed to the brothers of the baths Eyk. The style of Flemish painting is inherent to virtually all authors of the Renaissance, in particular the not unknown Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Bruegel and Petrus Christus left behind a lot of priceless works of art in this genre.

In order to write a picture of this technique, you need to first create a picture on paper, and of course do not forget to buy an easel. The size of the paper stencil should exactly match the size of the future picture. Next, the picture is transferred to the white glutinous soil. To do this, a lot of small holes are made around the perimeter of the image using needles. After fixing the pattern in a horizontal plane, take a powder of coal and sprinkle them with areas with holes. After removing paper, separate points are connected with a sharp tip of a brush, pen or pencil. If ink is used, they should be strictly transparent, so as not to disturb the whiteness of the soil, which actually gives the finished pictures a special style.

The transferred drawings must be shaded with a transparent brown paint. During the process, care should be taken to ensure that the soil remains permanently visible through the applied layers. As a carpet, oil or tempera could be used. In order to prevent the oil masque from soaking into the soil, it was previously coated with glue. Hieronymus Bosch used for this purpose a brown varnish, so that his paintings remained color for so long.

At this stage, the largest amount of work is done, so you definitely need to buy a desktop easel, because every self-respecting artist possesses a couple of such tools. If the painting was planned to end in color, the preliminary layer was cold, light colors. On them, again a thin layer of oil paint was applied. As a result, the picture acquired vital shades and looked much more effective.

Leonardo da Vinci shaded the whole ground in the shadows with one tone, which is a combination of three colors: red ocher, crab and black. He prescribed the clothes and the background of the work with transparent layers of paint that overlapped each other. This technique made it possible to give the image a special characteristic of light and shade.

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