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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
You have your own kind of color sense that adds to your style.
I had to get away from photos as my paintings came out sorta grey and dim.
I love the wax medium for large backgrounds I want to keep matte without the color sinking in.
Actually the Williamsburg Vermilion is the same color as the SP, but it handles like the Harding.
Is the Williamsburg Flake White stiff? I have been finding the Harding Flake rather too hard.
I like the SP Optical White because it does not lower the chroma, especially is I need to lighten a red, but my palette is not as quiet as your is. The beauty of the Optical White is that when you use it, the colors do not sink in as they do with Flake White./ I haven't had to use retouch varnish at all.
Linda, what is the texture behind your painting. It is a panel you made yourself?
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Sharon, The Williamsburg flake white is not stiff at all. It's very stringy. I slap it on and use a lot of it. I am leaving lots of texture. It's use with colors is almost transparent and it dries shiney and quickly(over night).
It's 40$ for the large tube at Dick Blick so it's not cheap.
Yes I have become accustomed to making my own panels. I find others expensive and disappointing. It takes me a few days to make up a bunch of panels. The texture you see is lead white primer thinned down with OMS, or turps, and applied with a small house painting brush. I make no attempt to smooth the strokes. I like the strokes. There are two layers of primer showing. You are also seeing texture from the flake white that I applied in my first layer of color.
The thing that I am mostly thinking about now is the Rembrandt and Freud method of making lots of texture with the lead /flake or cremnitz white and then rubbing thin layers of color into the heavy texture making broken color. It's working well and I'm loving it. :-)