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Useful Tips

Planning Ahead

Create your color scheme before you start painting. For example, I decided I wanted to paint the tulips (Painting With Acrylics, here) purple with green leaves. I wanted the flowers to pop off the background, so I chose a neutral taupe background to create a good contrast. Color matching can be a challenge. Check paint stores and online for resources to guide you in pairing colors.

Mixing Colors

When mixing colors, always add small amounts of a darker color to a lighter one. A little bit of a dark color goes a long way; however, if you add a light color to a dark color, you will have to mix a lot of paint to achieve your desired shade.

How To Blend Colors

Blending is one of the biggest stress points for most beginning painters, but it is essential to producing a good painting. This simple technique makes the difference between an amateurish paint job and an admirable one.

We will be using wet-to-wet techniques (methods that blend paint right on the piece while it is still wet) for blending colors on a carved piece. One technique requires you to sweep the brush back and forth to blend two colors (pictured below). An easier technique is stippling, which involves firmly tapping the border between two colors until they blend together (pictured at bottom).

Techniques for blending: Sweeping, at right; Stippling, shown below.