Brushstrokes: Acrylic

Painting Techniques

To start, have plenty of water and paper towels, rags, or tissue on hand for cleaning your brushes. It’s important to remove any residual paint from your brush between colors.

Consistency

Paint can be mixed watery thin to stiff and billowy. Thin paints can be used for washes, for thin layers, and for drippy, almost watercolor effects. To mix thin paint, add water. There are also some glazing mediums one can buy to mix with acrylic paints. But for this book, we will just stick with using water.

Example of a thin wash for an underpainting (first layer)

Wipe away any extra water and paint to create a thin background wash ...