The interaction with light creates the transparency or opaque quality of a color. Opaque color surface is more reflective (not to be confused with “shiny”). They cover and hide what’s under them. On the other hand transparent (or translucent) surface paint allows more light to pass through them. They appear to ‘see through’. Learning about and observing the opacity or transparency of paints enables artists to have greater command over techniques like glazing, layering, optical color mixing, or avoiding reappearance of earlier paint/ color, a bothersome effect where paint becomes more transparent as it dries, revealing what’s underneath. Many of Monet’s impressionist paintings shows the layer bellow the because of aging the upper surface color’s transparency. The 18th C Ad English Water color paintings had achieved the
Plate20 A. Minimalist Design
Plate 20. B
Plate 20. C Paul Cezanne
The interior of the room design (plate 20A) uses the transparency technique to achieve the desires environment, “Ingenious design, this bathroom the minimalist spirit of transparency and plays of light. A large window separating it from the bedroom while linking it intimately. This allows him to enjoy the natural light that lands on the room lighting flattering. Intimacy is preserved or screened behind blinds suggests.” Ref. 20 A. http://tubreglazingx.com/a-bathroom-color ; May 26, 2012
