Welcome to
The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Scumbling
Scumbling is painting thin layers of opaque light colour over dark colours, which gives a broken colour effect. Scumbling is rather like glazing, but with light colours over dark. The colours mix optically rather than on the palette, and the result is shimmery, opalescent. Think of the pearly water surrounding Monet's water lilies.
|
For example: The planet is shimmery and glowing because I've drybrushed whites and yellows over it and around its edges. That's scumbling. |
I've also heard painters use the word "scumbling" informally to describe pushing about the gummy paint that's started to set (reworking the "scum" on the surface, I suppose).
Back to the main lesson?Art & Text (C) Linda Carson 2002
Loosely translated, that means:
"Please don't copy this material or redistribute it
in some other form, for any reason.
This is my livelihood."