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- Today I want to paint this ear. This section is already dry. A frequent question I get is how to paint a second coat on top of an already dry coat and integrate it so it doesn't look stiff. That is a complex issue and I myself do not know the answer. I have tried different ways. For example, one would be to break the brushstroke. I don't know if this technique has a name, but it is easy to understand by looking at it. If you put a brushstroke like this, the edges will look stiff and what you can do is break the edges with another brush. Sometimes this is enough, but there will be other times when we want the paint to appear to blend as if it was painted Alla Prima. When we want that, I think there is no other way than to work wet on wet. I mean, we need to apply a fresh coat first so we can integrate the next one. And you will tell me: but that means working double. And you are right. Unfortunately, it means doing it all over again. For example, if I want this edge to blend in with the hair, I need to put some dark paint on it first. Let's do it. I can put some fresh paint on it and now that I have these two wet sections I can integrate the edges. I can decide how much one shape merges with the other. How smooth I want the edge to be. But unfortunately, I don't know of any other way other than to put fresh paint on it again. This week I was reading about Bouguereau's technique and one author wrote that Bouguereau used to put the paint first and then ran a palette knife over it. There are several interpretations for this. Since there is no document, such as a video, in which we can see how Bouguereau painted, painters have interpreted that of passing a palette knife in different ways. Actually, yesterday I was painting this section of the cheek and couldn't get it to work so I decided to erase it. So I ran the palette knife over the section that was fresh and removed most of the paint. Then I smoothed out the entire section with a brush and the cheek looked finished. I had never done that and it was very simple. Today I want to repeat that. Follow the same steps I did yesterday, now to work on the ear. This section is completely dry. Let's try this palette knife method and see if we can replicate the result. The first thing I am going to do is put small blocks of color as I would normally paint and once I have finished this step I am going to remove the paint with the palette knife. I know that doesn't make any sense. You will tell me: Why put paint to remove it later. But you will see the result. What this will do is allow the colors that we put on top to blend easily with the fresh base. The base will have rich tones and the new layer will blend in better. Of course I am familiar with the "Oiling Out" method used by some painters, which consists of first applying a coat of linseed oil and painting over it. I feel like that method gives us similar results to the first one I showed. Where the edges are smooth or broken, but do not blend into the dry layer below. Ultimately, what we seek is to improve the quality of our work. Because I feel like we can all easily paint with these little blocks of color. And what I was saying in another video is that if one starts to blend the colors too much, for example, integrate this one with this other one. The color begins to look over-fused. It does not look very good. And in a previous video I talked about avoiding blending colors and rather working with small blocks of color. But I thought: One of the advantages of oil colors is that they stay fresh for a long time and you can blend one color into another. Otherwise we would use acrylics or any other material. But the special thing about oil colors is that you can mix one color with another and work the edges of each brushstroke. This is the first step. We have small blocks of color. The finish still looks pretty rough. But let's try this technique. I know it doesn't make any sense, but you will see that in the end it will. What I'm going to do is pass the palette knife. I want to remove excess paint. What I'm looking for is to have a wet layer on top of which I can put new colors but not have too much paint underneath. Because that's a problem. When working wet on wet and putting on many layers of paint, there comes a point where no more paint can be added. Because there is too much fresh paint on the canvas. So what I am going to do is simply remove the excess and then with a clean and dry brush I integrate the colors. So what I have now is a wet layer with pretty accurate shades over which I can add new colors. And the advantage is that it will be very easy for the new colors to blend into the wet base. It won't be necessary to blend the colors too much to make them look integrated. What I do now is paint as I normally do. I mix a color, put it on the canvas, and voila. But the advantage of this fresh base is that the colors are going to blend in a much smoother way. Since the new color blends into the wet base, you don't have to drag it as much with the adjacent colors, so this will give your work a different quality. This is the first time I have tried this. But immediately the result begins to look like an academic painting and perhaps this is what those anecdotes about Bouguereau were referring to. We will never be certain. But we can keep trying things. And once this layer has dried, I can go back and add some transparent colors to intensify or darken any area that requires it. I will continue working calmly. But if you compare the different stages: how it started, how it was in between, and how it ended, I think you will see the advantage of doing this unorthodox technique. You'll feel that the color blends in better and you don't need to drag the paint too much to get a fine finish. The small blocks of color are still there, but now they are integrated into the whole. I hope this video is helpful for your work and I will see you in the next one.

Channel: César Córdova

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Length: 13min 44sec (824 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 07 2021