Studio Paint is a neat acrylic paint for use on canvas. It can be used straight, mixed with mediums to create glazes or with water to create watercolors or less opaque paint. To create this background I started with dab of yellow Studio Paint and covered the entire gesso-covered canvas (figure 2a). By adding more water to the brush in some areas while painting than others, it provides variation in the color. I then painted over an area with modern red Studio Paint and then scraped it away. Because the yellow was still soft, but not wet, the scraping took the paint off down to the gesso (figure 2b). I dried all the paint with a heat gun before applying more modern red and scraping again. This time the red was removed, showing more of the yellow underneath (figure 2c). For a more subtle background, I performed an option step of using a watered down wash of traditional tan Studio Paint.
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