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Subject: Ghosting Images In Acrylic

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packwidget
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07/25/2007 5:37 PM Alert 
I paint with acrylics.  I love to paint people and sometimes animals.  I'd like to learn how to ghost an image over a background of some kind.  Someone told me once that you just use a small amount of the medium. But by the time I get the face or whatever 3 dimensionalized and looking like the individual, the background is covered.  Any ideas?  Any books or lessons you can suggest?  Thanks.
ArtRiver

Posts:12
08/26/2007 9:27 PM Alert 
Have you tried using a value a shade lighter than your background
for the image that you want to ghost?
packwidget
Posts:4
08/27/2007 5:33 PM Alert 
No, I hadn't considered that. I'm not sure how I would accomplish that. Could you be more specific? I learned to paint through Jerry Yarnell on television. I've have been painting for 6 years, so there are many things I don't know yet.
ArtRiver

Posts:12
08/28/2007 8:32 PM Alert 
Say on a value scale of one to ten, your background is a nine, paint the ghosted image an 8 value.
Hope that helps.
ArtRiver
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packwidget
Posts:4
08/29/2007 5:43 PM Alert 
Thanks. So if I'm painting a ghosted face over a sea of trees, I would paint the image of the face just a little lighter than the trees, right?
ArtRiver

Posts:12
09/01/2007 10:08 PM Alert 
That is correct

ArtRiver
packwidget
Posts:4
09/02/2007 3:40 PM Alert 
Thanks much. So that means I would have a green face. Hmmm.....
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