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funshine6
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| 12/11/2007 9:18 PM |
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I carelessly used a red coloured pencil to do the underdrawing for an oil painting, which I then painted over with lots of nice greys and whites, and twelve hours later, now that it's finished, I'm beginning to see pink lines emerging through the paint. I am panicking a bit, as this is a commission and I'm on a seriously tight schedule... I fear this will neccesitate re-painting most of the picture, or all of it if a simple application of more paint isn't enough... PLEASE, if ANYONE can suggest ANYTHING I can do to fix this!!
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| 12/13/2007 9:00 AM |
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Hello, funshine6,
I contacted an oil painter, Valerie Shesko, about your question. She suspects that the solvents in the oil paint loosened the pigments in the pencil so that they floated up and now show through. She says you might try painting over the affected areas fat over lean with an opaque pigment like Titanium White (as opposed to something like Zinc White, which isn't opaque). Of course, then you would have to repaint those areas to blend with the rest of the painting.
Valerie isn't guaranteeing that the red won't come through the opaque pigment as it did your other paints, so you'll have to decide whether you have time to try this.
We wish you the best--let us know how this turns out.
Holly Davis
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funshine6
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| 12/13/2007 5:04 PM |
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Thanks so much for your reply... my hope is that in the drying process the red pigment gets "dried" into the paint so when I do go over it fat over lean, as you suggest, it remains a part of the original layer. It seems as though in other areas of the painting that have not been affected i had already applied a layer of paint which had dried. Thank goodness this is the case on the face (it's a portrait). Hopefully the painting over plan will work. Otherwise I'll have a lot more work to do than simply repainting the lighter areas of the painting...
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