Wash (painting)

Washes, also lavur ( from Italian lavare, wash, wipe ', cf Lavoir, wash bowl ') is a painting technique is applied in the color in a very thin consistency. This achieves a translucent color space. Lavieren refers primarily to aqueous and other volatile binder, the same technique in film-forming layers (oil, tempera) is the glazing.

Is applied lavur:

  • Watercolor painting to achieve smooth transitions. Here, the colors are diluted and applied with a damp brush. Due to the rapid painting style of watercolor in which the color is not between dries, the whole watercolor technique (from ital. / Lat. Aqua " water " ) can be seen as Lavurtechnik. Nevertheless degrees between quite dry and extreme wet-on- wet technique are possible
  • When coloring with very thinly applied water colors, the drawing remains visible
  • As shading of line drawings
  • As a central technology of the Sino- Korean- Japanese ink painting

In addition to the fine ink places of East Asia ( the not - so -wide contract ) is also in the pigments Lasierfähigkeit one of the most important characteristics: they decide whether the pigment is suitable for washes. Dyes are well capable glaze in general. In addition, a lavurfähiges colorants must but also in high dilution nor even color application offer: Several pigments tend just in aqueous binder to unpleasant mottled appearance. Therefore, the color palette means for watercolor painting is severely restricted and noble Asian inks are " outweighed in gold."

The typographical transfer of watercolors and ink drawings tacked to the aquatint technique was referred to as Ätzlavierung.

  • Technique of painting
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