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Originally Posted by Linda Brandon
The reason to let your paints dry and then to paint over them is to allow you to employ paint in different ways. You can scumble (paint without medium over dried paint) or glaze (paint suspended in medium). Each allows for subtleties arguably not achieved in a strictly alla prima method.
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Linda,
You put this so eloquently! But, if you scumble over something, how is this different from just painting over it if there is no medium involved? Is it just that's it very thin and you can see the paint underneath it?
I think I've read every word Karin Wells has written about glazing and scumbling but since I don't use the underpainting method (I did give it a try) I didn't think there was a place for scumbling. I like the idea that there is a place for it but I'm not clear exactly on how to employ this method. Are you doing the painting first, letting it dry, then subsequently adding scumbles until you have the painting where you want it to be?
Joan
p.s. I think pretty soon this'll turn into another topic. Maybe this discussion should be in another place?