As I usually do, I now tone the canvas with a warm tone of burnt sienna and cadmium red, mixed with a large quantity of mat medium. This allows the mixture to remain quite transparent, there by preserving my sketch beneath. At this point I am using acrylic paint, because it dries very quickly. After I complete my initial underpainting, I will switch to alkyd paint, a type of oil medium which I do my finished paintings with most often. It is fine to paint over acrylic paint with oil based paints, but never the other way around.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Painting Progression-Sleigh Bells-Step 2
As I usually do, I now tone the canvas with a warm tone of burnt sienna and cadmium red, mixed with a large quantity of mat medium. This allows the mixture to remain quite transparent, there by preserving my sketch beneath. At this point I am using acrylic paint, because it dries very quickly. After I complete my initial underpainting, I will switch to alkyd paint, a type of oil medium which I do my finished paintings with most often. It is fine to paint over acrylic paint with oil based paints, but never the other way around.
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