Original oil paintings by South African artist
Scumbling Techniques for Oil Paintings
Scumbling with oil paint is a simple way of introducing texture and broken colour effects into your oil paintings.
You can achieve a textural scumbling effect in your oil paintings by dragging thick paint lightly across the painting surface so that patches of the underlying colour show through the scumbled oil paint. The scumbling can be done using a brush or a painting knife and the paint should be as thick as possible and not diluted with turpentine.
Another scumbling technique is the reverse of a glaze being a film of oil paint that can be thin or creamy as long as it is opaque or semi-opaque. With the semi-opaque paint you modify rather than obliterate the colour beneath. You can also avoid covering the colour underneath by applying the scumble with a dry brush.
