unwanted light reflex (?) with acrylics

[yariire]

Hi i'm the painter's beginner and i have some serious problem. I paint with acrylics on artisic rough paper.. and everything was ok. The paint was of the color and brightness i wanted it to be.But now when i put it on particular places of canvas it's too bright, even white sometimes like some kind of light reflection. Generally i'm not happy with such effect and i can't figure out how to solve this problem.

If i don't make myself clear here are some pics:

http://www.margot.webd.pl/images/h.jpg

and a little zoom in

http://www.margot.webd.pl/images/h2.jpg

Please help me if you know the solution so that i could finish my work .

Thanks in advance

[Christine Farrelly]

Can you say which brush you are using and what the settings are. It looks as though the grain/feature of the brush may be too high.

Christine

[yariire]

I don't know if it's really the matter of the feature , or some other settings of brush, because i tried different values and the unwanted effect was still visible (too much) and only in few places i showed you.
But if you really want to know i painted with the feature of 1,5 to 3,2.

[Christine Farrelly]

But which actual brush in the acrylics range?

Christine

[sallybode]

If you are using a LCD monitor, it may be your view proximity. For example, the color of things can change to your view because the view is oblique when looking up or down, whereas straight ahead there is no distortion.

[Jinny Brown]

Hi i'm the painter's beginner and i have some serious problem. I paint with acrylics on artisic rough paper.. and everything was ok. The paint was of the color and brightness i wanted it to be.But now when i put it on particular places of canvas it's too bright, even white sometimes like some kind of light reflection. Generally i'm not happy with such effect and i can't figure out how to solve this problem.

If i don't make myself clear here are some pics:

http://www.margot.webd.pl/images/h.jpg

and a little zoom in

http://www.margot.webd.pl/images/h2.jpg

Please help me if you know the solution so that i could finish my work .

Thanks in advance

Hi,

It looks like you're using an Impasto enabled Acrylics variant.

If that's the case, go to the Brush Controls' Impasto palette and do one of the following:

• Change the Draw to: option to Color to disable Impasto lighting and depth (for that brush variant only).
• If you do want the brush variant Impasto enabled but want to adjust the Impasto effect so it's not so visible, leave the Draw to: option as it is (either Depth or Color and Depth) and move the Depth slider to the left until you get the effect you want.

Neither of the above solutions will affect previously painted work done with an Impasto enabled brush variant, so if you don't want Impasto depth and lighting to show in your brushstrokes at all, you might try this instead:

• Click the Impasto icon at the upper right corner of the image window to temporarily turn off Impasto depth and lighting.
• Use File > Clone to make a flattened copy of the image.
• Go to the Brush Controls' Impasto palette and change the Draw to: option to Color.
• Continue working on the Clone instead of the original image.
• If you choose another brush variant, make sure it's not an Impasto enabled variant or you'll have the same problem again. If it is an Impasto enabled brush variant, change its Draw to: option to Color before starting to paint.

Good luck!

[yariire]

ok i guess it worked, thanks Jinny