The Price of Experimentation
This is one of the works I did
when I was experimenting on finding a good priming for sketches. I was just playing around with techniques for painting water, and with the Ridner medium, and I think I was looking at Church's Niagara while doing this. I learned a lot, but there was a latent issue with the priming. Apparently the oil I applied over the sealing
coat was absorbed unevenly, and now has yellowed in an uneven blotchiness that
is apparent in the light part of the sky.
If I recall, that sealer was some species of acrylic white, probably one
with a lot of chalk in it. Most artists
would never use such a paint for a sealer anyway, so don’t be afraid of the
more customary acrylic gessoes – this does not happen with them.
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