This is very useful in laying in large flat tones, and in painting forms with a single brush stroke. Lean, dry brush. This is used to advantage in drawing lines, in delicate hatching, and in any kind of subtle modeling or detailing. This is useful in placing small lights, and fairly thick paint is useful in painting entire light areas. Five or six times over an area with thin paint usually results more happily than once over with thick.
Thin paint is extremely useful with a dry brush for delicate modeling.
This is the secret of most of the subtlety in tempera painting. Modeling In our pictures, the composition sketch, color sketch, and form drawing are rolled into one. The modeling is derived from the form drawing, which acts as a kind of map or chart for the placing of darks and lights. At this point a choice is made as to which sketch shall dominate. The choice is usually determined by the use to which the painting is to be put, or the position that it is to occupy, weighing visibility and taste.