I finally glazed the linen in two of the still life paintings. After this dries I’ll paint the linen highlights again and after that dries I’ll glaze it again. Might have to do this several times. The Old Masters might have 60 layers of paint, glaze, paint, glaze… The same goes for the bottles except the final stage of the bottles will be opaque highlights and the final stage of the linen will be a thin glaze of brown.
Yesterday I glued my new canvas to the 16 x 20 cradled wood panels. Turned out great. The photo is a little lesson on linear perspective. There are a couple of ways to create depth. One is linear perspective. The other is atmospheric perspective. With atmospheric perspective, colors get duller and things get fuzzier as they get farther away. If you were standing at a street corner with a stop sign right next to you and could see the stop sign on the next corner, linear perspective would make the stop sign on the next corner look smaller, and atmospheric perspective would make it a duller red and not sharply focused.
