Re: Answer 451 by Nancy Hunter on 04/12/01 at 11:00 AM
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In Reply to: Re: Answer posted by Danny Meazell on 04/02/01 at 4:40 PM:

: Thats Really Hard To Answer Since I cant See The Painting. But Remember One Thing.Objects Reflect The Color Around Them. And By All Means Dont Through Your Work Away.Thats The Bueaty Of Oils . If You Dont Like Something Or A Color You Can Let It Dry Enough To Paint Over It.And Sometimes What You See At Arms Leangth Isnt What You Get. Back Up Often And Look At It.Also They Make A Thing That Looks Like A Magnifying Glass That Does Right The Oppisate. It Makes Objects Look Farther Away.Its Very Useful In Painting.

Yep! Yellow is tricky. Here's what I do. I first paint in the entire form using just cadmium yellow and titanium white. Some titanium whites are better than others. Then I repaint that same form again (after the first layer has dried)using cadmium yellow, titanium white and raw umber. Go VERY EASY on the raw umber. the trick is to build up your darks very gradually. You can always make them darker later, but making them lighter is more difficult because it is so transparent. Sometimes I find that the darker areas do tend to look a little greenish. What I do is then add a third layer of cad yellow and titanium white again over those greenish, darkish areas. It takes at least 3 layers of paint with each layer being completely dry between painting. This is problematic when you are painting a form that is a continuous surface because you can always tell where the new paint has been added. With a little planning though you can usually figure out where to end the new area against an old area. I find that with all the painting of layers I have to go back in the final layer and repaint my whites and sometimes my darks. Another tricky thing about yellow is that if you are too timid with the darks it looks too amateur, but if you get it too dark you're sunk




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Thats Really Hard To Answer Since I cant See The Painting. But Remember One Thing.Objects Reflect The Color Around Them. And By All Means Dont Through Your Work Away.Thats The Bueaty Of Oils . If You Dont Like Something Or A Color You Can Let It Dry Enough To Paint Over It.And Sometimes What You See At Arms Leangth Isnt What You Get. Back Up Often And Look At It.Also They Make A Thing That Looks Like A Magnifying Glass That Does Right The Oppisate. It Makes Objects Look Farther Away.Its Very Useful In Painting. : Yep! Yellow is tricky. Here's what I do. I first paint in the entire form using just cadmium yellow and titanium white. Some titanium whites are better than others. Then I repaint that same form again (after the first layer has dried)using cadmium yellow, titanium white and raw umber. Go VERY EASY on the raw umber. the trick is to build up your darks very gradually. You can always make them darker later, but making them lighter is more difficult because it is so transparent. Sometimes I find that the darker areas do tend to look a little greenish. What I do is then add a third layer of cad yellow and titanium white again over those greenish, darkish areas. It takes at least 3 layers of paint with each layer being completely dry between painting. This is problematic when you are painting a form that is a continuous surface because you can always tell where the new paint has been added. With a little planning though you can usually figure out where to end the new area against an old area. I find that with all the painting of layers I have to go back in the final layer and repaint my whites and sometimes my darks. Another tricky thing about yellow is that if you are too timid with the darks it looks too amateur, but if you get it too dark you're sunk

 
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