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Beautiful underpainting, what color glazes are you going to use for the flesh parts?
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Hello Tito, thanks for your post.
Glazing is typically done for two reasons: 1) You want to alter the color or effect of a certain passage, or 2) You want to glaze an area and let your underpainting show through. Most people use glazes for the first reason - to alter the appearance of a particular passage or achieve an effect. I glaze for both reasons, but I don't glaze flesh. Glazing tends to be most successful when it is done in transparent or semi-transparent passages. Often dark transparent colors are the best for glazing.
I paint flesh opaquely and quite thin. As most flesh tones contain some sort of white, the effects I get when I have tried glazing with it are to say the least, not quite nice.
I believe that flesh requires a solidity that glazing does not give me. I do know that others do glaze flesh, but it doesn't work well for me.
So on this painting, I may glaze the background, the older girl's hair and possibly passages of the dresses, the rest I will paint opaquely.
Hope that helps!