Im learning how to weather and I am learning slowly.Id like to learn the washing technique. I have the main idea of the washing technique but as I read past posts about applying washes they just say that they apply burnt sienna and raw umber. These particular colors are available as enamel paints and oil paints. Except in the articles i read, they dont say oil paints. The authors only say oils. Is burnt sienna and raw umber actually an oil?
Neither that is the color of the pigment. They are “standard” artist colors. You can get them in any medium. I pretty much use acryllic only so I use Vallejo Model color Burnt Sienna.
You just have to wory about which time of paint will eat the other types and put a clear coat of a neutral medium between to the two types of paint.
Like a Base coat in Acryllic then clear coat with Kryolon Clear (enamel) the panel line with oils or acrylic thinned with achool. (achool will eat acryllics).
Thanks,
Thanks! I really needed that!
So oils can be used over enamels? I didn’t think they could. I’ve never tried it but I didn’t think the two could work together. That’s mainly why I haven’t tried it yet.
Eric
To be honest I don’t know how well Enamal and Oil base stuff work together. Now that you mention I think Oil will eat Enamel. But I am not sure. I just clear coat with Enamel (krylon rattle can)beuase I make my washes with Alchool and Alchool will eat tamiya acryllics which I base coat with.
Typically you don’t mix the same paint base with the same wash base. If you painted with enamels you’ll want to seal it with a water based sealer before applying a oil wash. I thin my oils with Turpiniod and it WILL lift enamels if not sealed with an acrylic such as Future.
I just ordered some of ProModeller’s Wash yesterday to try. Going to use it on the 1:48 Trump F-100C I am working on. Need to get the panels to pop a bit before I go any further.
I notice alot of people staring themselves blind at oil washes and going out of their way to try to protect the paintlayers before applying the wash…
A good alternative to oil and acrylic washes however, and a cheap way to get familiar with the technique are ordinary watercolors…You can get those in tubes too and will work fine over any kind of paintlayer as they are thinned with ordinary tapwater.
Granted, oil washes handle a little bit more subtle but certainly to get familiar with the technique itself the watercolors shouldnt be looked down on imho.
Richard
Hi all - on the subject of washes, would someone share with me how to concoct an oil wash and an enamel wash? Are they simply thinned paints? If so, what’s the paint/thinner ratio? I already know how to make an acrylic sludge wash and a watercolor wash. I just need the “recipe” for oil and enamels washes as I would like to experiment with both someday.
Yup, you got it. The wash, no matter the medium is just super thinned paint, or more like, dirty or tinted thinner. I don’t know of an exact foumula other than the “it looks right to my eye” formula. It also depends on the effect you are after. Just remember, washes you want to flow freely, unlike a sludge.
I hope this helps,
Regards,
Michael B.