[Aquanet] glazing

[patchapin at mindspring.com]

Aw c'mon, Pat, lets' face the facts -- watercolour runs, that is what it does best (usually when you are not wanting it to do so).  So, if you are going to glaze, you don't need workable fixative, you just need the proper approach:

1.    Make sure the original painting is dry; leaving it alone a day wouldn't hurt.

2.    Procure a good mop brush that holds lots of water and paint.  

3.    (Tricky Part) If you are going to glaze with a mix, now is the time to have the colour mix made in sufficient amount to do four paintings, as you don't want to pause to re-mix while glazing. Your glaze should ideally be of transparent colours.

4.    You do not re-wet the surface unless you think you can stay your hand to use that mop and lightly brush water down ONE TIME.  If you do not trust yourself with the terms 'light' or 'barely damp", don't do it, as it is not necessary or even advisable.

5.    Taking your courage and your mop, and filling the latter with the paint colour you have premixed and added plenty of water to, you proceed as if you were doing a wash -- you DO NOT restroke, you simply go with the bead of the edge of the wash and continue until your glazing area is covered -- no restroking and no back-brushing.  You DO NOT touch it thereafter until it is fully dry.  Then you decide if it needs another layer.

Doing it this way, you can put layers and layers of glazing on top, and not tickle your original painting.  My painting Irse at http://www.patchapin.com/patchapinpeople.htm  originally had dry-brushed rocks in the wall behind the figure, and the dratted things just wouldn't take their proper position.  There are easily ten glazes on the rocks getting them to stay back and not argue with the figure,but still glow slightly in the moonlight. 

Another example would be the painting Border Brush Texas at  http://www.patchapin.com/patchapinfish.htm where I glazed to unify the sections of the painting.  There are probably between four and five separate glazes on that one.
pat chapin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Davis" <peedee at nucleus.com>
To: "Aquanet" <aquanet at thedigitalbraintrust.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:18 AM
Subject: [Aquanet] glazing


> Hi, gang.
> 
> Let us assume that a person has finished a painting, and let us assume 
> that said painting needs a glaze over part of it, but said painting also 
> has pigments known to run when rewet. Can anyone suggest to this person 
> a way to do this glaze without disturbing the underlieing paint? 
> Workable fixative perhaps?
> 
> :-?
> Pat- no relation to "this person" of course
> 
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