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Step-by-Step Demo: Painting Glazes with Acrylics

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com

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Glazing Over with Blue Again

Painting glazesImage: © Marion Boddy-Evans. Licensed to About.com, Inc.
At this stage, some blue has been glazed over the yellow parts of the flower, creating a greenish shadow to give it form. If you compare the painting at this stage to the initial stage, you'll see that what was an intense and dominant blue has been transformed by glazing.

Additionally, using the same blues and reds on the different parts of the painting created a harmonizing effect, tying the separate parts together.

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