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Paintings On The Edge: Exploring Edges in Painting

By Paul Talbot-Greaves RI

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2023
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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.