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Thanks for your thoughts, John, Chris and David. You've given me a lot of information to absorb, and now I'm thinking of checking out Payne's gray, which I've never used. I just finished reading one of Helen Van Wyk's books, (I read here recently that she has died, and I'm bummed out) where she describes painting an undercoat of a shadowed area in gray (made by mixing white and black). Next she painted over that with a thin mixture of Burnt Umber and Light Red (a glazing). She says it creates a lovely, luminous quality, and in her portrait, I have to agree.
Is it this kind of glazing over a dark suface, and also a light surface, that can create a complex texture to skin? I have never tried glazing.
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