Using these Radiant tints, painters can build under paintings in the traditional manner then glazing to achieve optical effects of light and shade. Using tints, painters can make the brightest paintings. Light hits the painting and most of the light bounces directly off the surface. This is a traditional form of direct painting. Using shade, painters can make deep, luminous paintings and use white and tints for accents.
Light is captured in the paint layers so the layers glow.
Using tone, painters can build paintings by value of pure light tints and grey. Then, diluting his oil paints, he layered transparent glazes, mixtures of pure color and black - shade, to enhance the sense of depth. Applying purer light colors over the darker glazes, Da Vinci created a warm luminosity in his paintings. Or use the Radiants and Portland Greys to create impasto then glaze with Gamblin transparent pure colors and Galkyd Painting Mediums. For an enamel like surface, choose Galkyd .