With layered painting a technique has to be followed that is known as ‘fat over lean’ every subsequent layer has to contain more oil. A next layer can only be applied once the previous layer is dry enough to ensure that it will definitely not dissolve. With layered painting the painting is built up of various layers. The paint can be applied pure or combined with always the same medium or solvent. The painting, which is ultimately built up of a single layer, must be completed while the paint is still wet. With this technique the colours are mixed not only on the palette, but also in the painting itself, applied wet alongside and over one another. There are in theory two oil painting techniques: ‘alla prima’ and ‘layered painting’.Īlla prima refers to the painting being painted ‘wet-into-wet’. Talens stretched canvases, roll canvas and canvas boards have already been prepared. The gesso can then be applied, preferably criss-cross in two (somewhat thinned) layers. Next a second layer is applied, pure or slightly thinned with water.įor highly absorbent grounds the ground first can be treated with a layer of Amsterdam Acrylic binder, a pure unpigmented acrylic resin. For the first layer the gesso can be thinned with water to an easily spreadable thickness. The layer, however, must be thick enough, and so it is best to apply this in two goes. Produced according to a special formula, gesso performs the functions of the various layers. Talens Gesso is made using a pure acrylic resin and is of superlative quality. Gesso is used to ensure a good preparation Only then will the pigments be sufficiently bonded and premature splitting and cracking avoided. A paint layer must contain sufficient oil in order to surround the pigments and form a good film. An untreated or insufficiently treated ground will suck the oil out of the paint and will eventually be damaged by the oil. Paper, cardboard, wood, cotton and linen can be used as grounds for oil paint, but not without prior treatment. The quality of the preparation largely determines the eventual durability of the artwork.
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