Glazing : Oil painting techniques - step by step demonstration

thank you thank you thank you. You've taught me more in an hour than I have in years of art school.

Best glazing video I've seen! Thank you.

you honestly have the best quality videos for oil painting teaching its insane. You're such a good teacher and I've learned so much from you. Keep up the good work

you could glaze with white if it was transparent enough...to do that you have to add a small amount of it to your glazing medium and then add calcite . Velazquez often added calcite to his paints as did Rembrandt and Rubens. Sometimes they even added crushed glass. Titian , being in Venice had access to coloured glass and ruby coloured glass has been found in some of his pictures. In testing old master paintings, a lot of finger print traces have been found because they could spread the glaze thinner than with a brush ; hence the sfumato from Leonardo and others.They also applied the medium and then wiped most of it off ! Then they let it sit for a while and then tested it with their finger and started pushing it around until it started to feel quite tacky. Then, they added full strength paint . They did not dilute it with the medium. They may have added one drop to facilitate the pigment flow. Then they scrubbed it in with the brush and then wiped most of it off, leaving a full coloured couche. When the right amount of paint was on the surface they could spread it out very thinly with more finger work.This then dried and the process was repeated . If it was too intense, it could be lightly scumbled over. Most people think that many glazings happened one on top of the other. If you are using 30 - 40 glazings as Titian did, then the pic. would get very dark rather quickly. The process was more glaze-scumble-glaze -scumble-glaze-glaze-scumble etc etc. Each layer would modify the next until the  required result was achieved. These fine modulations can produce a photographic finish that opaque painting can't really match. Also, back then , the clients wanted to look as life-like as possible, they didn't want to look like a Nicolai Fechin painting ; horses for courses.Art was a business/trade and you had to impress your clientele.

I haven't see any artist's that powerful as you. Thank you so much for your time...

Thank you Florent Farges. Your explanations are very clear and your demonstrations illustrate your points extremely well!

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Finally I understand what glazing can and can not do. The mystery of how to use this technique further unravels... thank you great video!

Florent, Thank you so much for making this video and sharing with us. You've done a great job in painting and explaining it.

Very helpful. I'm glad I watched this before starting work to bring to life a very pale face on a portrait undertaken months ago. Subscribed.

I'm somewhat new to the painter community. I used to sketch and paint with acrylics and now I really would like to try oils. I love the method you use here because I am able to see the process of your painting by using big strokes at first then working down to details last. I will try this method when I start experimenting with oil paints. Thank you!

Nobody has explained it better than you! Thank you!

Finally clear explanation what glazing is:) Thank you for sharing

Respected sir, I am quite new to such technical side of oil painting. All I did was looking at other art works and try to paint as per my capacity, though I was always fascinated by old masters methods. Today I understood that every way of painting is correct if done with control and patience. Thanks.

A wonderful refresher course in glazing.

Great advice and demo, I learned some crucial things about shadow edge transition glazing I was wondering about for a while. Thank you!

Fantastic demonstration. So well presented! And so generous of you to provide. Hope to use it well!

So happy to finally find a good instructional video about glazing, particularly glazing skin tones! Thanks so much!

Thank you! You are so talented and helpful to watch for better understanding of glazing purpose.

Brilliant. The best explanation of glazing I've come across. Many thanks for your instruction.