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Old 05-06-2003, 10:18 AM   #3
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About verdaccio and shadows.

You can indeed substitute Titanium for Flake in your verdaccio mixture. It will dry slower unless you use some type of medium with a drying agent in it.

I have always felt that the shadow areas are kept transparent because they are generally painted with darker colors of which many are transparent. Further, many painters scrub their darks in and that also will contribute to transparency.
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