The next step was to tone the background. So with that, I bought a 16" x 20" canvas already primed with black acrylic gesso. The idea is that if your painting already has a lot of black areas and dark values (which rabbi portraits do with their dark suits and hats), why not start with a black canvas and work the other way out?Ī couple of old high school friends asked me to paint a portrait of them from their wedding day-and I thought, this would be the perfect opportunity to utilize this technique. I still think it's a fantastic way to paint.īut occasionally, I like to try something new.Ī client from Brooklyn, who I am doing portraits of rabbis for, asked me if I ever tried painting on a black canvas. Rather, I start off very transparent, (95-5) then shift to more translucent (80-20), and finally end up with semi-opaque layers (50-50) over portions of the work.įor those of you that know me, I have long championed the technique of glazing paint onto a white canvas, so that the light reflects through the layers of paint, giving it added luminosity and depth. It will get cloudy, if you have areas of your painting that are quite dark or saturated, and you overlap those areas with a very transparent (high ratio of matte medium to paint) glaze.īut I don’t do it that way in my paintings. Now, I don’t find that matte medium builds up cloudiness, in the way that I teach. With the copious amounts of medium that I use, this adds up! Matte medium is usually less expensive than gloss medium. When you put a varnish over the painting, it would present a problem, causing certain subtle nuances that seemed to look correct, suddenly become inaccurate. A glossy finish will make colors look more saturated and deepen values. In other words, you can perceive the values more accurately. Because it dries to a flat finish, it is closer to the sheen of paint, and so when you have areas that are more opaque and less opaque, they match up better.
It dries to a flat finish and so it doesn’t react with the lights in my studio, producing distracting glare.Ģ. Let me answer that with the reply I sent back to my student.ġ. So, what's better for glazing? Matte medium or gloss medium?
0 kommentar(er)
