Popular Painting
Styles: The Scumbling Painting
Technique
The Learn
And Master Painting Course teaches this style of
painting
Scumbling techniques have
been used by master painters since the 1600s to
create smooth gradations,
modify a previously dried layer of paint and to add a sense
of depth. This technique is accomplished by applying thin
layers of light opaque colors over dark layers of dried
transparent paint. The final results gives a painting a
surface that various in how much of the under painting is
revealed.
An ultra thin layer of an
opaque paint can soften an area of a painting while giving
it a misty, almost out of focus look that might be typical
of background objects. Adding a thicker layer of paint to
an area would naturally give that object an appearance of
being in the foreground. However, scumbling too much of a
canvas with thick opaque paint can result in a return to a
flattened sense of depth.
The scumbling technique is
often used to create a beam of light penetrating an
otherwise darken room. It is also useful to add a glowing
effect to accentuate individual objects and skin
tones.
An advantage of scumbling
is that if it does not produce the desired effect the still
wet top layer can be removed with a clean cloth alone or
with a solvent like turpentine as needed.
Famous painters and
paintings that employ a scumbling technique
include:
- Rembrandt and at least
two of his famous paintings called “Artist Contemplating
the Bust of Homer” and “Self Portrait”. Both of these were
oil paintings on canvas.
- The
French Master David Jacques-Louis and his painting
“Madame Charles-Louis
Trudaine”
Glazing
is sometimes confused with scumbling but in reality
produces depth in the opposite way by causing the
surface of the painting to appear to be
receding.
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Learn And Master Painting course, it is designed to be
the most thorough, logical and easy to understand way to
learn oil, acrylic and water mixable oil painting no matter
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level of skills or talent. During this course, the
student will create several complete paintings from start
to finish.
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Course?
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geared for rank beginners with no experience or formal
training through accomplished painters that wish to round
out their knowledge base and benefit from the advanced
lessons.
Also, children starting at an age of 8 to 10 years old,
with a little set-up help from an adult, should be able to
learn from the dvd set on their own.
About The Instructor Gayle
Levee (Pronounced Le Vay)
Gayle was born into a family of artists and knew from
the young age of five years old that she wanted to draw.
This award winning artist was formally educated
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