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with oil paints ,some colors are naturally transparent.(oxides,lakes,etc.) The 15th + 16th Century Masters knew that in order to give these colors their maximum luminosity, and take full advantage of a wide variety of tones and tints with each pure color, these could to be layered ,one upon the other...
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David, I think he drags dry paint over an lighter tone transparent underpainting leaving a lot of the underpainting showing through. It is hard to see this kind of detail in the small images on his website. His work has a beautiful soft tonal quality. Happy you posted his name.
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Jlward, Both Nancy Guzik and Richard Schmid use either Transparent Oxide Red or Transparent Oxide Brown to make rich, transparent darks. Rembrandt makes these colors. The more transparent a dark is - the more air it shows. That means that if these darks are scumbled on with the canvas showing through...