Art Tip of the Month #12: Glazing with Oils

Monday, July 9th, 2018

There’s so much to learn when you’re slinging paint and pencil, so here’s the eleventh installment in my monthly segment, Muddy Colors: Art Tip of the Month with Jeff Miracola. Each of my short videos will share a handy tip to help you create magnificent art.

My art tip this month is: Glazing with Oils

Although time consuming, applying transparent layers of color over already dry paint can give your paintings a certain luminosity and also allow you to create colors that can’t be achieved by normal color mixing methods. In this video I show you my first glazing pass over my underpainting.

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    Thanks a lot, Jeff. It’s an incredibly valuable piece of advice.

    • Jeff Miracola

      Wonderful. Glad you found it helpful to you 🙂

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    Beautiful work and another great video!

    Glazing can also infuse a painting with softness, but the ‘right’ kind … the one that doesn’t destroy previous brushstrokes.

    Thanks for sharing!!!