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My wood grain
My way of applying wood grain is the following:
First I airbrush a layer of flat Tamiya acrylic. You can use Deck Tan, Sand, Buff, Brown, White...The final tone depends in part from this first hand.
After drying, this paint can be smoothened with a flat brush, then, always using a soft flat brush, I apply several tones of oil paint starting from the lighter. I normally use Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Natural Umber and Cassel Earth, but you can choose infinite colors.
The application is very quick because you blend the colors one after the other without cleaning the brush (and picking different colors until you get the desired effect). After a few practice, you can drive the brush streaks to get a good reproduction of the wood grain lines, also differentiating the grain from a panel to the adjacent one.
Oil paint allows a lot of corrections before drying, and it must be sealed by a layer of clear varnish.
Ciao
Otto
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