The Art of Glazing in Painting How to use Glazing Technique in Paintings
How to use glazing techniques in painting. Glazing is a technique of laying transparent layers of paints one over the other considering the effects they produce to the viewers eye. Usually glazing is done using transparent colors and not opaque colors in oils as the effect of glazing is only seen after many layers of thin paint. Glazing was in fact a protective layer on the painting by applying thin light brown varnish to form an protective cover for the precious oil on canvas paintings. Color field painting has been on my mind for many years but never tried this technique. Laying of paints in thick texture was very important to me as for this I have chosen oils over any other medium. Water color, thin, transparent has never come out good for me and the few works that I have done earlier are the only proof that I have tried even this medium, water color. Glazing is not easy especially of you don't have patience, it takes time, a lot of time. Patiently thinning the paint w...