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Layering in contemporary painting

By Lynne Cameron

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2025
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Cameron explains how she builds paintings over successive sessions by layering different media over acrylic (graphite, pastel), varying application through scumbling and glazing, and using water and textured paper to create visual archaeology in the surface.