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I got down the glazing method with this one! I darkened the back with a dark green. Pulled out the highlights a little bit. Now, I will add more light bulbs. Light bulbs are fun!Oil on canvas 40.5" x 31"
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Kat, I believed I have looked all of your paintings...and this is new for me! N_I_C_EEEEEE!
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Thank you Moerthammer2. This is one of the last paintings I completed where I was not yet concerned about the space around the figures. I was more focused on the figures them selves. Now I am looking at the space in which the figures reside and trying to create relationships with the figures and space so that the audience can more easily visually jump into that space with the figures.
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Really impressive. Your people always have so much character. And such nice white teeth
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Haha!! Yeah, I guess I do give them good smile. After all they are on stage/the wall being observed. Thank you very muc Citypainter.
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Thank you Anita. 
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Thank you ACBusse. The color palette I used was prussian blue, alizarin crimson, flake white, armenian red, terre verte, brilliant cadmium yellow, and burnt umber.
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...the contrasting orange/blue and red/green really caught my eye. Very 'quattrocento'!
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When I was glazing the darks in, I found a great discovery! I used a blued-out black (prussian+burnt umber) and then laid out a yellow-orange on top the next day. I was able to get this cool aurora borealis effect with it!
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ahhh...I'm going to try some glazing with complimentary colours now just to play. Sounds very cool. I'm pleased that you are not shying away from the use of flake white as well. What is your preferred glazing medium?
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Than you Tom. Compliments from you and Barrie mean a lot to me!
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Wow, this is really cool. It is so modern in my opinion, I like the fact that you used those colors and love the whole spontaneous look of the painting.
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Thank you Ivana! I am trying some new things with my color palette. I usually paint with color tones, but I am trying a warmer approach. Also, I placed an armenian red underglaze on the canvas so that I wouldn't be starting out on a stark white canvas.
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Ah yes, I don't like to start on plain white as well although I'm a novice in painting compared to you, more into drawing. 
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Thank you Ivana. My drawing is always sketchy in the beginning. I use the brush to carve out the drawing as the paintings progress. Your drawings are beautiful!
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You're welcome, and thanks! Good luck in further work!
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Thank you Barrie!!! I added more light bulbs to the painting today. I'll have to let it dry for a day or two to glaze them back a little bit. But it is full of lights bulbs on the left side now! Hugs!
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It looks great Kat! And can I say thank you for posting the different stages of this painting. I've been watching the various versions of this painting as they each are posted. and it is so interesting to see a work of art shift and change till its creator eventually realizes it's final form. That and I just love seeing how other artists work.
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Thank you Jack. My work shifts and goes through soooo many stages. I had a professor named Elizabeth Ross who first introduced me to painting back in '05. She use to get onto my case about re-painting the same painting over and over. I would explain to her that I want the colors to shift in certain areas more than others. Virginia Derryberry and Robert Tynes taught me the power of glazing rather than re-painting. So I'd have to thank them all for their little tid-bits here and there concerning the evolution of a painting.
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You're welcome. My work shifts and goes through a lot of stages too, but usually instead of reworking a specific piece, I just start over again (for example, I think those two japanese-style portraits I did of my friend Linds, there were about 8-9 different "pre-versions" to get to those final two). Needless to say, this can get rather frustrating and more than a little time consuming. And while if it is something like a watercolor or pen and ink drawing this can't really be helped, I'd like to start to make more of a concerted-effort in the future to be more like you as far as reworking a piece instead of just starting over, at least as far as my painting is concerned. With that in mind, would you explain to me a little bit (if you don't mind) the power of glazing? I never had the time to take a painting class in art school so practically all my knowledge of painting comes from either experimenting myself or studying the work of other artists i admire and trying to emulate their process (which is why i love when artist like yourself post their work in stages because it makes it so much easier for me to disseminate their techniques/process).
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My friend you are making one of my dreams come true as I type! That is to assist others in painting!!!
When I begin a painting, I rough in the drawing over a primed colored canvas. I used thinned (with turpenoid or mineral spirits) paint in the next layer or two. When I have finally established the main bodies and shapes in a painting, I begin glazing.
There are different mediums out there to glaze with. I like using liquin a bunch because it also speeds the dry time of the oil paints. Liquin is also great for working in small details. And since I like to re-visit the paintings on a daily basis sometimes, that works well for me. But I must warn you, once you have placed liquin on the painting, work a little quicker to get the desired effect because it starts to dry rather quickly. When I am very close to completing a painting, i start working in the linseed oil medium.
I take the linseed oil and pour out a little puddle the size of an old 50 cents coin maybe (same thing with Liquin!). I dip my brush into my paint and then gently dab the paint on my brush into the linseed oil. This is wonderful for creating a thin layer of color as well as making the paint flow smoother.
I buy my mediums at cheapjoes.com. They always have great prices! If you like shiny effects on your painting, try out some galkyd. I don't have as much experience with that medium, but I KNOW it makes your work SHINY SHINY SHINY.
I hope this helps. Let me know how works out.
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Thank you Michael!!
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WOW! iT'S soooooooo luminescent! Excellent Work Kat! Keep on Creating! Cheers!
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You made my day Mr. Macd by saying it was luminescent!!!
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Thank you AttackCheetah!!
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