How To Blend Acrylic Paints

This demonstration provides a 'How-To' on blending acrylic paints using the Feathering and Wet Blending techniques.

The Raging Gaijin is a 4 time Golden Demon award winner, as well as the recipient of numerous State and Local awards in Miniature Art. His works are internationally featured in White Dwarf, Citadel Journal, and the book 'CMON Annual 2003', as well as showcased by Chaosium Inc. and Horror Magazine. The Raging Gaijin has painted miniatures for Games Workshop, Crocodile Games, and LyonStudio. He is currently enrolled in the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, pursuing a degree in 3D Animation/Film Production. He also works as Freelance Sculptor for Zombiesmith.com and various clients.

Video by: CJ Cummings

Category:

Education

Tags:

• CJ
• Cummings
• Raging
• Gaijin
• Dojo
• wet
• blending
• feathering
• acrylic
• paint
• paints

[RubiconXing]

I use super sculpey and then prime with krylon gray primer, painting with winsor newton artist's acrylics. Although it adheres, it can't take a lot of touching, and can flake off in bits. It looks like you're using Golden fluid acrylics (no water) so that might be my problem. Anyway, it's been a bit frustrating to find the right technique. I use silicone glue to adhere sculptures but it's not archival. What clay do you use? Thanks for the vid.

[TheRagingGaijin]

@RubiconXing

I use Vallejo acrylics, which come in smaller bottles. Do you paint larger scale sculptures? If so, the paint you are using is fantastic for it. The key to preserving your painting from rubbing/chipping is in the protective coat applied after final drying. I use a Matte coat for display pieces and a Gloss coat for gaming pieces. My larger sculptures receive a couple coats of Matte to get rid of the sheen acrylics sometimes leave.

I use CA glue (Super Glue). :D

Peace.

[Ydouneed2nomyname]

the exception to the metallic thing is gold, bronze, brass, any yellow-brown based metallic. A dark brown foundation looks better for those ones. But thats my opinion. Black makes gold look dirty. At least in my experience.

[TheRagingGaijin]

@Ydouneed2nomyname

Thanks for the tip! I'm going to give this a shot and see how it works out.

Enjoy painting!

Peace.

[SirGeekalot88]

Nice basic demonstration of wet and dry blending. Though a bit more narration on the actual color and brush changes might be useful.

[TheRagingGaijin]

@SirGeekalot88

Like size of brushes and colors used?

Cheers.

[RubiconXing]

@TheRagingGaijin Wow! Thanks! I didn't think about applying a top coat (I usually use acrylic glazing liquid for glossy highlights, and only use crystal clear -- which is glossy -- as fixative for my paintings so the matt spray didn't even cross my mind!). Thanks a lot! I'll try it out. Really respect your work.

[KuroHinatule]

I'm not into this but I respect you for having such patience.

[nozidnolram]

Very nice! Thanks master!

[armyillustrator]

Very nice. Slow it don a bit and this would be a rating of 10.

[abstruseoni]

I like the video...some of this could also be applied to a canvas for similar results.

[maki1575]

thanks for the vid, is redbull your sponser lol