One way to make an oil painting is to first create the grisaille. This is an underpainting, where we use only white and black paint (that I make using yellow, red and blue pigments). We create a monochromatic picture with different values of grey (from white to black) - and it becomes the foundation for future layers of colour glazes that are applied once the underpainting is dry. Thank you to my lovely niece, Sarah, for sitting in for this work.