What I've learnt from the video :
- We can mix many different colours of acrylic paint to get our desired colour
- crimson + yellow gives us an earthy orange
- green + red or orange + blue gives us different shades of brown
- Translucent colours can be mixed with white to make it more opaque
- Textures can be added to acrylic paintings using
- crushed aluminium foil
- stencils ( can be used to create detailed designs )
- toothbrush ( it gives a very rough texture )
- wire gauze
- The more water the brush holds, the smoother it will be to paint with acrylics. However, it may cause the paint to be more translucent too.
- Dirty water = dirty paint
- Different brushes can be used for painting!
- a large flat brush can be used to paint large backgrounds
- smaller brushes can be used to outline / add details
- round brushes can be used to fill spaces or gaps
- flat brushes are good for corners and curves
- We can mix acrylic paints with a glazing medium and this allows us to control the translucency of the paint by pushing it around in the medium. It results in a very glossy ' oil-slicked' appearance.
- As acrylic tends to be very opaque, we can use contrasting colours ( with reference to the colour wheel ) to create very abstract art !
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