Okay, here's what I'm up to: Generally, under-painting is done with oils. At least, that's the only way I've seen it done, and obviously the Old Masters did not have acrylic paints. I do generally prefer oils (for lots of reasons), but when it comes to clean up outdoors, carrying the thing, and so on... I do better with acrylics. I'm just messy, I guess. For that reason - and maybe just because it occurred to me - I wanted to try using the gray under-painting with acrylics, which means I needed to use a gel medium to increase transparency.
You can see some places where I added too much water with the gel and pigment, and got more the look of particles over the under-painting, and others where it is much more gel-like. Sometimes I actually like the "wiped off" look acrylic gets when there's too much water, and sometimes it's just wrong... At any rate, I'm learning - adding tools to my bag.
This is really going to be a nice painting... what's the size?
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