Studio Time

Much of the “noise” you see in these images is actually from the texture of this panel. As I mentioned elsewhere, I didn’t sand this after I sealed it with acrylic medium. I find that the texture makes blending the way I do it; scrubbing very thin passages of paint into things, much easier. I like the feel of it as well. It does leave things a little noisy and manages to play hell with very expensive brushes. I like the noise… the effect on my brushes, not so much. 🙂 It does give me an easy way to grind down older brushes. I usually end up applying the color with something new then scrubbing with something that’s been around a while.

I imagine that’s one of the things that’s making this so hard to photograph. The light hits every little protrusion and the camera picks it up as noise. For the sake of my sanity as well as my brushes… I’ll sand the next panel… a bit.

Yesterdays session began by “glazing” over some of the darks with Sennelier’s alizarine crimson, blending into that with Sennelier’s Naples yellow light, Naples yellow deep and titanium white and Rembrandt’s cadmium yellow. I ended things by scrubbing Sennelier’s warm grey onto the “walls”.