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Thanks Sharon. I'm glad you like the palette. Told ya!
Beth, maybe I should have activated the poll feature to see how many people reading my post were confused? Seriously though, I still do the wash-in. I refer to it as a monochromatic transparent underpainting because most people don't know what a wash-in is and I like to impress people with my extensive vocabulary. Kidding on the second point.
The next time I paint, I lay in the second layer thinly enough to cover the dry wash-in in an attempt to establish the broad color relationships and continue to refine everything (drawing, colors, values and edges) til the buzzer goes off and class is over.
The third pass starts with a scumbling of light colors over the painting in order to pull out the lights and unify the effect I'm trying to achieve. I then proceed to paint into this with the intention of refining all the above mentioned points.
I keep all this thin so when I start to apply the final layers I don't have ridges built up in bad places. Since I prefer canvas wet sanding is out of the question.
I understand that this explanation is simplistic because to fully describe what I do takes three days of demoing (two and a half if there was no humor) to explain. It takes people quite a while to absorb everything (days, weeks, months, years, millenniums?) What I teach operates at many levels, each student getting what is appropriate for their stage of development.
Quite often I'll have a student tell me they never heard this or that when in fact I may have repeated it several zillion times (I exaggerate, maybe only several billion!?!)
Anyone who thinks they can really understand the complexity of painting in a week, let alone a lifetime, is kidding themselves. The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Also, confusing people is not necessarily a bad thing, unless of course they are your employees and you pay them by the hour or you're giving them driving directions!
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