Article · Talbot-Greaves Artist
Paintings On The Edge: Exploring Edges in Painting
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
Discusses how hard focus edges and soft, lost edges steer a viewer's reading of a painting, and how to handle them in each medium. For acrylic, it suggests misting, slow-dry medium and heavier paint loads to keep transitions soft, and it recommends letting one edge type dominate with the other in support.
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