How To Paint Reflections

“How To Paint Reflections”
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Oil Painting Tip on “Base Colors & Reflections” by Daniel Edmondson: www.OilPaintingWorkshop.com

This oil painting tip on base colors & reflections helps prevent your reflective surfaces from looking funky and bad. In painting reflective surfaces, may it be silver, copper, or gold, think of them as a mirror. Painting reflections entails you to paint it twice which means one for the object and one for its reflection. It is in this part that the tendency to go quick and be sloppy usually takes in effect thereby destroying a what could have been AWESOME painted reflection.

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Video Transcription:

"How To Paint Reflections"
By: Daniel Edmondson

Basically, if your looking at a really shiny vase its like a mirror. So you basically have to paint everything twice.
You have to paint the grapes and then the reflection of the grapes, the backside of the grapes. If you have a flower you got to paint the flower and then backside of the flower.
Think about it as if its 2 separate canvases. That's what i recommend you do.
Think about your main canvas but then think of your reflection as another canvas.
A lot of time people will mess this up because they will think think that they can get sloppy and quick with the reflection that's reflecting everything in the painting and they do that but they do that and then that makes everything else look great but that makes their reflective surface kind of funky and bad.
You have to give that with that little bit same consideration that you do the entire painting.
It doesn't matter if its silver, copper, gold its is if its reflective its reflective.
Your not really going to have a base color with silver.
Sometimes, if its a little tarnished you might have a little bit of a silvery, gray-blue color like as tarnished or of course copper has a little bit more of that of a yellow ochre with a permanent rose mixed together base and then brass has kind of that same look of a little bit less red.
Anyway, it just depends on what the surface is but in this specific case it meant silver so that you have to treat that as if its a mirror. That's really the way to think about it.
It's a great way to learn to paint but, like you say, it is hard but just when you do the vase take your time go really slow and that's really a good time to do 1 square inch at a time and not move on till that inch is good till the next inch then the next inch till you've got it established.

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