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The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Hatching
Hatching is a painting technique using many short linear brushstrokes. If the artist criss-crosses the strokes, it's sometimes called "cross-hatching."
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For example: Notice how the nest appears light on top and darker as we look around to the sides and the hollow interior? No blending here. That's all created by piling up layers of hatch marks in different colours, some light and some dark. Where lots of light brushstrokes predominate, the nest looks light. When the dark brushstrokes take over, we see the shaded sides and interior. |
Painters use hatching both for its literal look (this is just the thing for painting fur and grass) and to shade and blend when the paint medium is too quick-drying for smooth blending.
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