Sunday, February 27, 2011

Day 20: Using acrylic glazing medium

Back in the studio for a couple of days after a busy week, I went ahead and coloured that picture brownish-yellow, using a mixture of acrylic glazing medium and a couple of drops each of yellow and naples yellow:

The thing about working with a white background all the time is that there's nowhere to hide. If your lines stray just a little, they stick out like a sore thumb. Glazing a colour over everything gives one a bit more margin of error.

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