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                                                      Martin Kinnear did a portrait  Stage 1 Feb 14 2023       Studio Talk  Part  5 The basics of Indirect painting Difference between traditional indirect painting and Modern direct painting  Traditionally we compartmentalise colour and make it a separate process- In modern painting we don't. Modern painting is massing and modelling -= bush process.          You work from big to small, translucent to opaque, dark to light.  A fast ground needed for this and a 50/50 medium Direct painting is wet into wet like this >   Wet into wet Chunky definite edges Temperature changes in colour Thick physical paint Defined plains of light and shade This is direct painting Indirect is wet over dry Translucent painting over a painting Like ...

  From artist network's. YouTube      ArtistNetwork                          Johannesburg Vloothuis Sample video from him "Painting cloudy skies  - what you need to know"  about 1ht50m long. This is on YouTube. The lower third of your composition should have no detail -  that’s assuming that the area of focus is around the centre of the composition. You do not want to distract the eye by having sharp edges or details around the lower part or even around the sides  - you do not want to distract the eye. Design your painting to include two obviously different halves . Divide the painting down the middle          - it is very boring if both halves of the painting resemble each other    -   Ignore values from photos that are darker than a mid dark for daylight landscapes. Nothing should be darker than value seven on a grey scale from 1 to 10 ...