Thanks for sharing these useful tips. I do have a question: do you ever add titanium white to the diluted acrylics? For example, if I'm painting skin and I want a peachy-colored wash, would you recommend adding white to the mix or is it controlled by the amount of water you add to it? Great work so far! =]
@shadowsonthehills two ways to go about this basically. mix transparent peachy washes and build up the value and color you want. Or mix various levels of opaque paint to apply. I still water down my opaque mixtures and apply them in glazes building towards my desired color and value. I hope this makes sense
@shadowsonthehills You can go either route and get good results. Either add white or use the underlying white of the paper. The difference with adding white is it tends to make colors chaulky and cool. Usually adding yellow or an orange ish color to warm it up helps. Mixing the proper color can take forever. This will take a lot of experimenting on the part of the artists. Something I still struggle with from time to time.
I'm using water. I use both hard and soft body acrylic. Soft body, of course, is easier to mix and thin down. Either seems to work fine. Thinning down hard body acrylics just takes more time. I usually add a drop mix thoroughly, add another drop ect so that I don't have a water mixture with chunks of acrylic floating around in it.
Your photo reference is awesome. That guy looks hot. Just wanted to throw that in there.
azianurkel 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing these useful tips. I do have a question: do you ever add titanium white to the diluted acrylics? For example, if I'm painting skin and I want a peachy-colored wash, would you recommend adding white to the mix or is it controlled by the amount of water you add to it? Great work so far! =]
shadowsonthehills 4 months ago
@shadowsonthehills two ways to go about this basically. mix transparent peachy washes and build up the value and color you want. Or mix various levels of opaque paint to apply. I still water down my opaque mixtures and apply them in glazes building towards my desired color and value. I hope this makes sense
efortune357 4 months ago
@efortune357 Thanks, much appreciated!
shadowsonthehills 4 months ago
@shadowsonthehills You can go either route and get good results. Either add white or use the underlying white of the paper. The difference with adding white is it tends to make colors chaulky and cool. Usually adding yellow or an orange ish color to warm it up helps. Mixing the proper color can take forever. This will take a lot of experimenting on the part of the artists. Something I still struggle with from time to time.
efortune357 3 months ago
I'm using water. I use both hard and soft body acrylic. Soft body, of course, is easier to mix and thin down. Either seems to work fine. Thinning down hard body acrylics just takes more time. I usually add a drop mix thoroughly, add another drop ect so that I don't have a water mixture with chunks of acrylic floating around in it.
efortune357 4 months ago
Are you watering down the acrylic paints or do you mix them with some type of thinner to get that consistency? Are they soft or hard bodied acrylics?
And thank you for talking throughout this demo, it's really helpful to understand your technique instead of it all just speeding past!
nonnahs144 4 months ago