The Reilly Papers

Paint Application The lay-in is the initial application of opaque paint, wet paint brushed onto a dry wash-in. If your wash-in values are a...

From Reilly's notes: "The complexion should be first comprehended as a generality. Visualize at the start of a painting the model...

ColorNote On Wash-In ©1955Allison In the Reilly class we spent the first half-hour of each session drawing from the model, the remainder ...

To set up the figure-painting palette, you must first create the string of neutral control values described in the previous post. By the 197...

At the core of Reilly's Universal Palette is a scale of equidistant value steps called the "Neutral Control" values. The main ...

It would be difficult to advance with this project without offering a short primer on Munsell. Reilly adopted the Munsell Color System for h...

Edge modeling is an essential ingredient to successful representational painting. The first thing I look for is what Reilly called the ...