You have seen how easily a thin paint coat can be applied.
Now you may enhance your painting with even more subtle shades and tints.

Apply a really very thin layer of poppy-seed oil to your painting.

You may use a brush, your fingers or the ball of your thumb
to distribute the oil.
Apply it to parts of your picture without hesitation.
You can gently spread it over the oil colour layer as adding
a mere gossamer touch or as brilliant highlight or as added depth.

Do paint shadows into shadows, lights into lights.
Add delicate red to cheeks and draw those lines mentioned
earlier like eye lashes, hairlines and fruit flies in a fruit basket.

At this stage, the painting must dry out completely.
With this technique it requires at least three months.

The surface of the painting will have dried after a few days,
at least those areas you scumbled.

After about three months the painting can be varnished.

The final varnish coat will dry within a few hours; it does protect
the painting from harmful effects and creates an even surface.
Highly glossy areas or those turned matt will be evened out by
the properties of the varnish.

Enjoy painting and good luck
© Thomas Diegelmann