Landscape Painting From Beginning to End
When learning how to glaze an oil painting, students must choose the correct paint. Paints suitable for glazing an oil painting have pigments that tend to be transparent with the addition of medium. Every paint pigment, by nature, becomes transparent, semitransparent, or opaque when mixed with oil. Now a glaze is simply a suspension of pigment in oil. It has oil or medium with little specks of paint in it. As you build up the amount of oil into the paint, the pigment disperses, causing transparency. Generally, blacks, blues, purples, and violets tend to appear transparent. Earth colors, like browns, tend to lean semitransparent to opaque, depending on their source. All cadmium and chrome colors, whites, and colors made with white cover opaquely.