Using a large brush I applied transparent washes of acrylic paint. This is a good, quick way of establishing colours and values. Such washes also give opportunities for accidental effects to happen which, if I apply oils thinly, can give added interest to the finished painting. Layers of Oil Paint I usually start with the sky, then work forward from soft edged far distance, painting first the shadows then the lights. Shadows become progressively deeper, warmer and more transparent as I come nearer the foreground.
Highlights also become progressively brighter and more sharp edged.
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