When painting semi-transparent light colours, like yellow or red, over dark colours, like blue or black, I prep an area with a bit of white, in essence priming the shape of the object. This allows me to block in with a easily repairable white, and at the same time loose no intensity to layering.
5 comments:
Zinc (Transparent) or Titanium (Opaque) white?
~m
Zinc is more flat or matte and warmer than titanium, so i prefer that. mines opaque though ?
Thank you. I'd like to learn more about what you mean by "repairable" white. And, how is this technique different than painting over with an opaque red pigment, for example?
No colour is 100% opaque when applied in a single brushed layer(with the exception perhaps of indian red, hehe). That means whatever is underneath affects the hue. If you paint yellow on a blue canvas, it looks green, etc. The reason canvases are usually white when you buy them, is because this allows for the most possibilities when painting (keeping intensity and accurate hues). So by repairable, i mean the easiest to paint over.
I find I'm doing a similar thing to make colours more muted, and I use a black rather than white as my underpainting. COol technique, eh? It's amazing to think that whatever color you have underneath will potentially show through ina different way.
Post a Comment