Chest of Colors forum

Any tips?
Any links to good tuts?

huh, not much in fact.

I can only advise you to thin paints until they become translucent - maybe adding some matt medium to reduce opacity wothiut thinning the paint to water. Don't take too much paint onto your brush, so that you don't drown your miniature in the paint.

Then just paint with it, like with normal paints. Glazing is painting with trannsparent paints, so that one layer shows through another one to some degree, so that all the layers add up to create the final effect....

I probably do something wrong - my standard result is mess on a mini
Usually paint dries as "spots". Do I put too much water in it?

I think that You take too much paint on your brush, but thats just my guess.

ad a tiny drop of dish-washing soap/liquid to your water.

usually i just add a dop or two per glass of distilled water. this breaks the suerface tension of water and removes the 'borders' of drying paints.

you must be putting too much paint at one time. try using a bit thicker paint for the beginning - to avoid losing patience - and don't overload your brush with it. don't try to apply 'pools' of paint onto painted surfaces. less paint, more layers, you'll do well

mahon wrote:... Glazing is painting with trannsparent paints, so that one layer shows through another one to some degree, so that all the layers add up to create the final effect....

I use glazes completly different. I highlight my area through layering, then I use glazes of one or two colors to smoothen the highlights and to bring some color variations in it.

A glaze for me is one drop of paint, some matte medium and glaze medium, and "X" drops of water depending on the pigments intesity of the paint. I use a white surface (toilet paper or just a sheet of paper) to test the intensity of the glaze. I need a watery substance with a decent hint of color.Then I use this mixture on the complete area that I want to glaze a number of times depending on how intense I want the color to be.

You need to make sure you have little paint on your brush or else you will flood the surface and the pigments will spread unevenly.
I pull my brush through the color I use, and then whipe it off a couple of times on a piece of cloth. And then I go to work. If you use a bigger brush with a good point you'll still have plenty of paint to do a couple of glazes.

glaze ????? what is it !!!

if you want i could do a little tuto to explain the base.....

I'd much appreciate it, illusionrip

i'll try to do one mini tuto not to complicated

with pics?