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Is the intent of this step to make the highlighted areas more opaque?
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Yes. Light is always portrayed in thicker opaque paint. Shadows are thin.
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(So that I'd be exactly matching the color of each highlighted square (or part square) as it's painted?)
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Yes. Because you can see through the glaze to the cloth below, it allows you to see the exact color and value you need so you don't have to guess.
I used a small flat square tipped sable brush to get the glaze stripes uniform. If you make the stripes slightly bigger, you won't have to paint so many of them.
It was a while ago that I painted this still life, but I remember that the entire checkered pattern probably took a total of 30 minutes of my time. The pattern only looks hard - but it really isn't. Painting the plain white cloth underneath was much more time consuming.
Sorry this is such a poor photo detail. I rescanned my crummy snapshot to show more detail. This is one of those paintings that I didn't bother to photograph adequately before I sold it. I regret that now.