Take the hit in your wallet and put it down to experience, see it as an artistic progression tax. Don’t paint over it, keep it as a record of your progress.
The time it takes to paint over, add extra layers, and try to keep a section you were pleased with, it is just not worth it. Even though you’ll think it is great to save the money on a canvas it’s a false economy. However, I don’t always get away with a repainting.Įven with all my experience the pile of unfinished, slightly embarrassing paintings, is a clear reminder that sometimes when you know in your heart a painting is not right it is worth starting again. Sometimes if a painting is not quite sitting right, reserve judgment, have a brew. But, it still took me another two weeks and a lot of trickery and late nights. The triptych got repainted, it looked better than the first. I don’t think I can repeat what she said. No dramatic clouds, no subtle glazing, just one big problem. Vanessa had just popped upstairs to make a cup of tea with the fateful words ‘ They are finished Will, just varnish them’ The phone rang, she was delayed upstairs.įifteen minutes later she came down, all the canvases were now white. They looked good, all they needed was a few subtle glazes to bring the paintings together. Each canvas was 6ft x 4ft, and I’d spent over 3 weeks on the paintings, they were practically finished. It was for a large triptych painting of a sky. One of my moments of ‘the blackness’ came two days before a deadline for a client. You will have to cover every area of the canvas. To paint sections will take longer because you won’t have the coloured ground to fall back on.
To cover the painting completely will take a minimum of two coats, even with artist quality paint. Because Acrylics are plastic-based (See: What are your paints made from?) when they are built up in layers they create a hard, shiny surface. The problem is you’ll have lost the absorbency of the canvas and gained another layer of unwanted texture.ĥ. I know what you’re thinking, ‘ I’ll just paint the coloured ground again‘. When you paint over an existing painting you lose this glow. When you paint Yellow Ochre onto a white canvas (See: How a prepared canvas can drastically improve your painting) the trick is to paint it thick enough to form an opaque layer but thin enough to allow the white from the canvas to shine through and give the colour a glow. If you paint over the whole canvas with White acrylic, it will feel chalky when you paint over it.Ĥ. This can be key in portraits when trying to create the illusion of depth.ģ. Some of the most interesting areas in paintings are from the mix of thin transparent paint with thick impasto. Because once the paint surface has built up watery paint just won’t behave the same. The paint surface won’t feel the same – Once you’ve lost the ‘tooth’ of the canvas the paint behaves differently, it doesn’t pull off the brush in the same way.Ģ.
You have to be aware of a few things if you decide to repaint, and to make the decision, is it worth it?ġ.
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Right choice or wrong choice? How to cover your Acrylic painting You’ve spent out money on the canvas and want to change the picture so you reach for the white paint intending to paint out the whole thing. The apple looks wrong, the drawing is a bit ‘out’ and the colours, well what were you thinking the day before? Your previous colour has all dried up and you just can’t match it again. Imagine the scene, you’ve been tinkering over a still life painting for days, tweaking a bit here, a bit there and something is just is not right. it’s almost too much… When do you need to start your acrylic painting again? How do you weigh up the time you’ve invested, the cost of materials and all the emotions versus starting again…. Should I paint over my painting that’s not going to plan or start again on a fresh canvas?
It’s the debate with yourself that never ends… Solomon J Solomon – British Pre-Raphaelite painter “Take encouragement from the thought that you may learn from honest failure than from mild success”
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