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Richard Budig · 03-25-2004, 07:06 PM

Les:

Hi . . . are you Russian? Sound a bit Russian to me. If so, (phonetically) kok vee puzhavieetsia?

About using complements for unerpainting, glazing -- my thought was that if I used, say, burnt sienna for the underpainting and blue for the glaze, being complements, they would, as you suggested, make darks and optical grays. But the burnt sienna, which I used in another place, was very strident, and I thought that where the blue paint went very thin, the orange of the burnt sienna would show through, and look odd. Maybe I was wrong.

Anyway, I'm interested in glazing more for the effect of depth one can get in the shadows by painting with transparent paint than anything else. It makes for interesting projects, and adds a degree of difficulty to otherwise slopping paint around.

BTW, I liked your work. Your underpainting seemed a bit dark, but by the time these computers get finished translating pictures into numbers, and back again, who can tell what we're looking at.

03-25-2004, 07:06 PM	#3
Richard Budig Juried Member Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Lincoln, NE Posts: 260	Underpainting and stuff Les: Hi . . . are you Russian? Sound a bit Russian to me. If so, (phonetically) kok vee puzhavieetsia? About using complements for unerpainting, glazing -- my thought was that if I used, say, burnt sienna for the underpainting and blue for the glaze, being complements, they would, as you suggested, make darks and optical grays. But the burnt sienna, which I used in another place, was very strident, and I thought that where the blue paint went very thin, the orange of the burnt sienna would show through, and look odd. Maybe I was wrong. Anyway, I'm interested in glazing more for the effect of depth one can get in the shadows by painting with transparent paint than anything else. It makes for interesting projects, and adds a degree of difficulty to otherwise slopping paint around. BTW, I liked your work. Your underpainting seemed a bit dark, but by the time these computers get finished translating pictures into numbers, and back again, who can tell what we're looking at.