AUXILIARIE - Royal Talens

111GlazingWhether you paint using the wet-into-wettechnique or paint in layers, a glazing can beapplied as a final layer. This is a transparentpaint layer which has roughly the same effect asplacing a coloured sheet of glass over a picture.The picture doesn’t change, but the colours do. Aglazing can be applied, for example, if the artistis not quite happy about the colours and wantsto change them somewhat without having topaint over entire areas. Also, the artist may wishto achieve the visual effect of glazing layers:an enamel-like top layer and deep colours. Anunderpainting would then be used as a startingpoint to modify the colour of the entire paintingwith one or several layers of glazing. Brushstrokes must not be visible in a glazing as youwill continue to see the brush stroke of theunderlying layers through the transparent paint;a glazing medium therefore has to flow. Thanksto this property you can also make flowing colourtransitions in a glazing. Take care: a layer ofglazing has to be more elastic than the underlyingpaint film as here, too, the ‘fat over lean’ rule hasto be followed. Various mediums are suitable forthis purpose.Step 1Step 2Step 3You cannot always foresee exactly how manylayers are needed to come to a satisfactory result.Ensure, therefore, that the paint is never too fatso that any subsequent paint layer is still ableto bond. Pure oil as a medium is certainly notadvisable; the paint can then become too sealedresulting in a subsequent layer not being able tobond well. What’s more, with too muchoil there is a greater risk of the paint filmwrinkling during the drying process.tIPStep 4It is recommended that flat soft-haired brushes beused, of for example red sable or ox hair, in order toget an attractive, even glazing layer.oil colour