I just got done posting some landscapes from the Oregon coast, mentioning that I started them on black backgrounds when I realized that I never posted the paintings that got me started, except for a couple of pet portraits. I may never work on a light surface again! The method here is to sketch the subject with a white chalk pencil them just create the forms with white paint. When it is complete I can decide whether I want any color, but a lot of times I'm happy with the black and white. There are a lot of possibilities for color, watercolor pencils or pastels plus acrylic medium, liquid acrylics thinned way down to glaze transparency with medium or the same thing with oil paints and liquin. All these were done with acrylics glazes, Golden Liquids, like I mentioned many times, is very transparent and highly pigmented and takes about a drop.of color added to the medium. Buying anything more than a one ounce bottle is a waste of money, it will last forever. I use Golden gloss glazing medium for the vehicle and finish it with Golden gloss varnish with UVLS to protect the color from light. If I use oils and liquin I don't bother to varnish. I hate oil varnishes, nasty stuff. About the initial sketches, I mentioned in the last post that I'm crappy with proportions and obviously some of these look like I do ok, my method when it makes a difference (doesn't make a difference on a landscape and I just wing it) is to print the picture on computer paper, put white chalk or pastel all over the back and use it like carbon paper,, taping it to the canvas and drawing the lines I need. It leaves a light white outline that is easily removed with a damp sponge when the painting part is complete. Saves a lot of time, and is not cheating. There is no cheating in art.
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