From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

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Watery washes and glazes

Watery washes and glazes

From the course: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

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Watery washes and glazes

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(soothing music) To demonstrate some basic glazing techniques, I'll be using the acrylic glazing liquid gloss, the size six soft Filbert brush, the square edge brush, and the small nylon round brush. So, I'm just going to start with the yellow, the lightest one, choosing the Filbert brush. (soothing music) And you'll notice how when I'm painting it, I'm painting the whole of the actual leaf. I'm not leaving parts of it, I'm painting every part of it. That's just because what I want to do is try and establish this lighter yellow as the undercolor to the leaf, and then I can paint other thinner colors on top of that. So, I'm working the colors into each other, working them when they're wet on wet, so they blend in nicely and then you get this nice, soft transition between the two. Then as I'm going further down the leaf, I can start to introduce some of the stronger oranges as the underpainting. (soothing music) So, then just blend in those edges together so I've got a nice, smoky color…

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