Glazing
 

I am about to use the prescribed palette for glazing (thanks Karin) I have always mixed everything with some white and am confused about the mixing of paint for glaze. Is the white in my underpainting enough white or do I mix some with the transparent colors? Also I generally paint the lightest lights and darkest darks first. Does this apply to the glaze technique as well?

A glaze is pure color mixed with medium that is translucent. If you add any white (or other pigmented color) to the mixture, it is called a scumble.

Glazing is generally used to enrich/enhance a color that lies underneath...a result that you can't get by just mixing wet paint.

Sometimes I lay down a wet glaze into a dry area of my painting just so that I can begin to paint thick light into it. This makes it convenient so that I am able to paint "wet into wet"...and yes, that destroys the effect of the glaze.

Before you begin to glaze a color, the paint underneath (sometimes an underpainting) needs to be rather finished looking. Glazing does not build or add form to a painted object....think of a glaze as adding more color and "atmosphere."
Not that I know of....

Thanks Karin. As always, your posts (and replies) are a wealth of information.
I am SO happy that you are willing to take time to share your tips and tecniques on this board.

Check this out. It shows some good examples of glazing technique over an underpainting.

http://glazing.fws1.com/examples.htm