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September 09, 2004
Light on dark, fat on lean
Put down some dark colours in the background, then hit the flake white and fill almost, but not quite, up to the edges. Leave a little bit dark, a little bit of darkness at the edge. Leave a little fight in the line, a bit of dark breaking into the light and vice versa. Make the line work. Night and day.
And when schlurping* the flake white over the dark make sure the dark is a thin coat not a thick coat, so the light can be thick and powerful. This way round and the paint doesn’t crack as it dries, thick coats of paint clearly taking longer to dry than thin coats of paint. So you don’t need to watch it; dry - the paint, that is.
You can instead get on with giving the whole thing a good coat of looking at.
*schlurp v. arch. technical term for the application, with great gusto, of large schcloops* of paint.
*schcloop n. arch. term for [enough, Ed.]
Posted by john at September 9, 2004 05:06 PM
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