Glazing - blending with glazes vs oldschool layering

[sea.man]

thank you!

[Wraithlord]

Great article Mahon! I am very much a visual learner and this one has really helped me understand the concept a bit better. Definitely going to be giving this a try.

[mahon]

I turned it into a tutorial about glazes and added to the tutorials section.

[Kislevraider]

Wow. how confusing. im screwed.

[Hosea]

Mahon, thanks for the tutorial.

It is very nice that someone would spend their effort to share with the others.

Trust me, may be the language barrier, many people here do not know those terms and how to do it.

This brief and clear clarification among those 3 techniques unlocked my confusion toward them, I think I did ask this long time ago in CofC, but may be my language ability is limited, I could not figure it out til now.

[Barton]

Thanks for the tutorial Mahon.
Now questions for you Mahon.

How thin do you want glazes for starting to use glazing?
Rephrase: Do you want glaze to be thinner than a wash for example?
Assume I am doing only a few coats of a glaze not a lot of them. It is more for changing hue ("warmth") than anything else.

[mahon]

well, people thin their washes to a similar degree too, so I think it's a very personal thing.
I don't really know. I would thin the paint only as long as it takes to make it a bit translucent. so when you can paint with it and see the surface below but through the color of the glaze, I think you got it right.

I found that premade washes may be too thin for most people, while some like them (eg. I didn't have patience for some of new GW washes while Ana enjoyed it and bought the full range). I like working with Vallejo transparent paints and Vallejo or P3 inks/washes the most. They have very intensive pigment but are translucent so they immediately "paint" with color, but don't obscure the background. I find it much easier and enjoyable than having to thin down normal paints (matt medium or glaze medium should be useful)

remember that "glazing" is not as much about using any particular kind of tools or materials, but about the concept of "painting with translucent paint". while washing is very similar but is about more uncontrolled flow of paint into recesses, glazing is fully controlled painting.

and you have to choose the most suitable tools by yourself.

[Barton]

Used white (Anita's Craft Paint white) 1 drop to 30 drops of water (water was 8 oz with one drop of jetdry in it) for a glaze on my MC3 mini. It turned out great! When I send the mini I will mention the glaze when I post in the MC3 mini showcase forum area.
Used only one coat of glaze but it did exactly what I wanted to do color wise.

[mahon]

great to know!

[DAGabriel]

Hi Mahon, can`t find the tutorial in the tut section. What did happen with it?