Thank you for sharing your knowledge (and heart) with us, Ms. Mize. I can't begin to tell you how important your videos are to me in my continuing battle to overcome some pretty serious trauma. Discovering Art (in general) has been a godsend for me, truly, and your ability (specifically) to help me put this new pursuit into practice is absolutely priceless! ...

By joe, I think I've got it. Now, I can create my own black line test paper (I hope doing the black line with a sharpie will work); then, test various colors to see if they are opaque or translucent. This was one area that escaped my understanding. Thank you, Dianne!

OK, I think I"m my 5th video of yours today - and I must say, you are a phenomenal art teacher, the way you break it down! Thank you!

So happy to have found your channel!!! You rock!!!

Love your Quick Tips! So helpful! You are a great educator!

Very helpful. A knowledge of paint characteristics is pretty important before you set off on a project.

Great info! I learned new techniques from this. Thank you Dianne.

Thank you so much for this information Dianne!

Dianne thank you for your wonderful teaching style

Always enjoy your quick tips...no matter how long ago you posted them...thank you so much.

As always, it is a huge joy watching this awesome channel. Thanks a lot for sharing and for the excellent explanation! :)

Thank you for this great tip and a Happy Thanksgiving to you & family. 🙏❤️🙏

I completely enjoy the fact that you explain painting techniques so clearly. There is so much to learn. You make it easier. Happy Thanksgiving :)

Thanks Dianne ...you are truly an art teacher and like a go to art Dictionary 🥰

You are so cool. A topnotch artist and educator!

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!

Wonderful tip once again! I have found that learning the most used pigment numbers have helped me a lot when finding the right hues and properties for me. I am sure it's not for everyone, but it has been a gamechanger for me for sure.

I loved this!

Thank you for another very interesting quick tip, esp.the comparison of transparent color to thinned opaque color.

Thanks for your tips they are very helpful 🤗

You are a tremendous teacher!

Excellent demo. I will begin to note the transparent colors verses the opaque colors. Thank you.

Thank you for another exceptional quick trip. I get so much out of all your quick tips. I wonder if you would offer a quick tip on how to paint bricks, both in buildings and sidewalks. Thank you for sharing your skill and knowledge and experience.

Perfect video. Thank you

Bless you. I was very frustrated about this topic. When I heard other artists talk about this it sounded just too advanced and complicated for someone like me who's just started painting. But your explanation is simple and clear. Thank you 🙏

You are my hero. Excellent . Thank you.

Thank you for your video ❤❤❤❤

Thanks Dianne brilliant x

Excellent!

Superb. Thank you.

VERY GOOD TIP!

Thank you as I have trouble to read my paint tubes. You have made it easy. Also with working with liquin and keeping in mind the fat over lean theory, when glazing if you wish to thin down glaze slightly more is it ok to use a little liquin it or should I just stick with exactly what you have shown do and wipe excess away? Not sure why but I am ogten tempted to thin it down more. Thanks again for your teaching.

May you have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Thank you so much for all your informative videos , they help a lot :) What would be a good palette for portraits? Opaque pigments or transparent or I have to have both? I like cadmium pigments , but I love non toxic pigments that I can just easily wash my brushes in the sink without putting toxins in the water, .. organic pigments are nice too but so transparent and hard to get coverage..

That’s really helpful. I have another question, kind of the reverse of this. I prep a canvas with acrylic yellow ochre, then sketch the layout or put a grid for sketching with a combination of yellow ochre and burnt umber (oil). My problem is in painting over this. Colors like burnt sienna and other colors don’t cover the sketch and I wind up doing layer upon layer. Can you suggest a better solution?

Another brilliant demo. What is Gamsol? I’m in the UK. and thank you.

Hi, I had heard that mixing transparent colour with opaque can make luminous colours. Eg, transparent red/yellow oxide to shift hue of greens etc?

Great tips! You sprayed your painting with Gimsol???? Did I hear right? What is this liquid in the spray bottle?

I was expecting to see you show white painted onto the black line on top of the transparent paint to show the change. Well for painting on black canvas. As anyone has seen Bob Ross do. We need dark to show the light. I liked your example so far. 👍👍👍

Hello! What can I do to make a transparent colour more opaque? I don't want to but new colours :(

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