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Unifying glazes and layers

Unifying glazes and layers

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Unifying glazes and layers

- A glaze in traditional media or a layer in Photoshop can unify an image and can create a harmonious relationship within a pallet, just like a ground. Spot glazes can also shift a particular color to warmer, cooler, brighter, darker, lighter or more neutral. A glaze is a thin smooth, shiny coating of transparent, opaque or translucent color. A layer in Photoshop is the same but is made from pixels on a screen, rather than a physical material. Here are some examples of acrylic paintings created by one of my students. The fruits were each made with primaries, and the ground by a different set of primaries using opaque, translucent, and transparent glazes. With the red apple on the green ground you can see the opaque color, the translucent color, and the transparent color as well as the original ground that the colors sit on. Again, with the yellow pear on the purple ground, and the pumpkin on the blue-purple ground. Acrylics allow us to see what is under the paint layers, and see the…

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