First Steps in Acrylic Glazing - Old House

[DigidesignScrap]

thanks for the great tutorial

[gberk]

hi! thanks for your quick reply. I understand now, I'm just simply amazed by how intense the red came out, and also the shading of the underpainting is really coming out strong. So i couldn't believe that it is transparent thin glazes of red.... now i do. I will try this, it's a totally new technique to me, i use to paint alla prima, but I do want to add more depth and color intensity to my paintings. Thanks for the nice vid again!!

[rachelcreative]

@gberk I was amazed too. Now I use glazes a lot more but the kind of work I do now I don't use underpainting.

You might be interested in my blog post of my first glazing technique painting following a lesson on wetcanvas (linked to on the post). Won't let me put link here but link for my blog on my profile then search for Study of Acrylic Glaze Technique

Good luck experimenting!

[gberk]

thanks for the video! i do have one question about the glazing though: once you've done all the detailled shading in the underpainting, is the glazing then kind of like painting by numbers? e.g. the red door in your vid, did you simply give it several layers of red, equally brushing the whole surface of the door? Or are you also using darker red for the shadow parts etc?

[rachelcreative]

@gberk The door is basically the underpainting with 2 or 3 red glazes on top. You get the light and dark by getting the underpainting right. So in that respect it's like painting by numbers.

But it gets a bit more complicated because most of time you don't have solid colour. And if you want to get more realism then you would see the colour of the ground and surrounding reflected off the door. And as you see the wall and roof have much more colour variation than just one colour glaze.

[ryuuwyvern90]

Im new to painting, and your work is excellent! But i have one very amatuer ask.. what is glazing? is it a technique or product?

Please help!

[rachelcreative]

It's a technique. But you need special product (called mediums) to do it in acrylics.

[digbycurrents]

That's not strictly true. A glaze is simply a very thin, transparent layer of paint. You don't need any special products.

[rachelcreative]

Yes fair enough. But it's much easier to get a consistent diluted layer of acrylic paint using a medium than using water alone.

[hamorhage]

really nice work

[lynntwinartists]

thanks for the painting tips,

[daligoddess2006]

Very nice *F*I*V*E* STARS!