I have been painting a painting with acrylics for awhile off an on. For things like cloth and metal I can get the blending I want fairly easily. Now that I'm painting skin tones and things like the lips, I kind of wish I was painting with oils. I'm trying to layer things to get the tones right, but I seem to be doing it…
Oi, yeah, that's where it can get tricky with acrylic paints... I remember having the same problems once when working on a face on a mural I was making with acrylics. I can't say for sure what would work, but here's a suggestion to try: First of all, don't water down the paint at all. When the paint is thinned, layering…
Watering acrylic does work, you just have to know how to work with them and prep the substrate before you begin working. What it sounds like you need are 'retarders' and/or 'extenders'. Retarders delay the drying time of the paint without necessarily thinning them out. Extenders on the other hand primarily 'extend' or…
there's a liquitex acrylic paint thinner I used back in school (I think they're called paint mediums)... basically it was translucent pigmentless acrylic paint... it came in a squeeze bottle and was sort of soupy/cloudy. You use that instead of water and the pigment will become semi translucent. I never got the hang of it…
It's all about getting the right consistency before you paint. Mixing acrylic with water can be tricky business because plastic and water pretty much repel each other. It takes a long time to mix them together well (so long for me that I typically don't bother). I find that watering down the acrylic is a bit pointless…
Let me put it to you another way. *Exhibition preview in the real world (as a 'professional' artist)*Them: "I quite like your art work, we're interested in buying one or two pieces" Artist: "Oh?" Them: "Yes. We were wondering how you got those wonderful colours though" Artist: "It's pigment mixed with floor wax" Them: "Oh.…
Da Vinci liked to experiment with binders as well which killed the last supper.:poly142: However, acrylic floor products are jes 100% liquid acrylic. Acrylic is the binder in acrylic paint. If using as much to "thin" ( thining by adding integrity ) then it would actually be the "expensive" thing to do. Comparatively, using…
use ink for washes. finer/more pigment. stay away from dye's that will bleed if rewerked. if you have to use acryllic... thin with acrylic floor wax! it is water soluable and u can airbrush with it as well. ( wear a mask ) if yer strapped fer cash.. make yer own paints. Floor wax and raw pigments can also save u a lot of…
ur right. I'll clarify. I champion the use of acrylic to thin acrylic paint. ( Its usage was taught to me by professionals at a prestigious art college 25 years ago. BTW. fer any MICA Alumni out there r.i.p Grace Hartigan :poly122: . I do not believe anyone has ever contested the use of 100% liquid Acrylic. So yer safe.…
So far what seems to work best is to paint everything at one go. I do know now from the tutorials why I can't layer things. Anytime you add titanium white to your color it becomes opaque. I always wondered what that meant and now I know. LOL It seems a lot of the colors are not opaque and they take several layers for them…