tinting strength is the ability of a pigment to maintain chroma with the addition of white.
Lightfastness the resistance of a pigment in direct sunlight. This depends on the type of media and tools you are using some are better than others.
Warm Underpainting:
This adds to paintings when their is a warm color tint underneath the painting. Painting straight on white can affect the color and make it seem more dull than having an underpainting.
Sky Panels
This is when you paint a sky gradation before actually painting the objects in the paintings.
Transparency and Glazing
Transparent pigments are best on super white backgrounds and make for better colors
glazing is a transparent layer added to a dry painting to intensify and deepen color.
Limited palettes vs wide.
limited makes for a more harmonious effect
Muddy colors
Tuesday tips
beware of tangents
Painting hair: base color, ad dark with soft brush, paint hair on a separate layer of a more saturated color of base, add highlight, add lines to create shape separation and strands, final highlight.
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