Light In the Sky

This is my glazed value study that I posted last week. Oil on canvas. I found I was trying to paint too much instead of light glazing. This is my first time glazing so hopefully next try I will understand the process more.

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Comment by Mary Wykes on September 26, 2013 at 3:39: super glazing

Comment by Roena King on September 26, 2013 at 2:33: This is really pretty. I did the same thing with too much pigment for the glaze instead of doing "many" thin glazes to achieve the desired result. I did a experiment for my self for this workshop. I thought I was going to do a glazed painting on a white canvas. I did learn a lot though. It did not turn out at all. Way too thick and I found, as you said, I was painting with transparent paints instead of glazing with thin transparent paints to build form. But the thing I did learn is that once I decided it was a lost cause..........I too turps and wiped off the most recent day pretty good. But the other 2 days of glazes (3 total) using liquin, were dry and hard as a rock! They were not "tender" as I thought. I took a green kitchen scrubber and turps and got some more off, but the final was sand paper. Those glazes were tough!!!!! I had read where Maxfield Parrish used dental pumas (the sand stuff they use to clean your teeth) to sand his paintings (and he did glazes) so that they would be smooth. I was always afraid to try the pumas on one of my good paintings, and (drat) I forgot to try it on this one before I sanded it off. LOL