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How to Add Color Glazes in Acrylic to Your Grisaille

By Matt Philleo

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2024
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About this lesson

Explains how to turn a dry monochrome grisaille into a color portrait with thin paint-and-medium glazes that keep the underlying values intact. Covers testing mixes first, letting each layer dry, warming flesh with burnt sienna and cooling passages with blues.