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Establishing temperature and contrast using glazes

Establishing temperature and contrast using glazes

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Establishing temperature and contrast using glazes

So we started this painting with a value construction. And then moved to working with a limited palette of cobalt blue and cadmium red and cadmium yellow, to try to get the whole painting working, really focusing on the local color of the things that are being painted here. And now we're going to work with transparent color, translucent color, and opaque color, to pop the contrast and also give the whole thing a kind of warm tone to give it vitality of some of the paintings that I'm, I'm being influenced by and also to just get the thing to have more juice. Right now it sort of looks like uh, (UNKNOWN) painting because it, it's a little bit chalky and it's all with straight water color. It's been spray sealed with a fixative to seal the color that's on here on here because water color would start to move if I started to glaze it with acrylics. So it's sealed and ready to go, and I'm just going to use a little bit of orange, going to start pulling from the complimentary colors to play…

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