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Painting Techniques
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Applying paint with a ______________ is an instant way to make your painting texture. You can use this tool to create the impasto technique.

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Using a fairly wet brush, you can flick paint onto a work surface for an uneven splatter effect. It's fantastic for creating an abstract landscape or a starry night or for just adding texture to a piece.

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Start your painting by creating a 'sketch' of the image in paint. Often this is done in a color that contrasts with the palette you have in mind for the finished piece. Doing this you can let parts of it shine through for a dimensional effect.

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______________________ or tones to work with in a painting can help you create subtle variances in your painting. Whether it's slight varieties of skin tones or varying shades of pink, having a family of tones pre-mixed before you paint can really help streamline the process.

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Instead of fully mixing the two colors, just give them a brief mix with your palette knife. Then, use the partially mixed colors to paint. You'll get a fascinating mingling of colors as you apply the paint to your work surface.

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Using a corner of a sponge or even a piece of paper towel, you can dab on accents of color. Think of it like very artistic sponge painting. Dabbing adds a lot of texture and movement to a piece. For instance, on the painting above, dabbing with a sponge perfectly captured the texture and movement of trees swaying in a light breeze.

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You can treat acrylic somewhat like watercolor when you dilute the paint with enough water. You can use the watered down paint to apply translucent washes on your surface.

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a way of applying paint, specifically a thick, textured application of paint where the marks made by the brush or painting knife stay visible

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A technique used to have one color gradually fade into a lighter tint, a darker shade or another color.

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When paint is applied to canvas or work surface using a dry brush and paint undiluted by water. Your lines will be uneven, as they won't have water to soften the edges, but this can be a purposeful painterly effect. __________ application lends texture and movement to lines.

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This is a fantastic method for beginners. Trace your image, separating each color or tone into separate shapes. Create a palette, and then paint in the shapes as if it were your own DIY paint by numbers piece.

12.
This is a method used in drawing which can also be used with paint (Georges Seurat's work is a fine and famous example).

13. Glazing paints

14.
A technique which is simply to paint in layers. This means that you'll build the painting from the bottom up. You'll start by painting big blocks of color, often as washes, and then adding more and more refinement as you add layers.

15.
a painting technique for adding a layer of broken, speckled, scratchy color over another color. Bits of the lower layer(s) of color show through the scumbling. The result gives a sense of depth and color variation to an area.

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A small, fine brush can be used to apply details, such as the whites of eyes or the glisten on the wing of a bird. In our tutorial on how to draw eyes, you'll get a fantastic primer on detail work in acrylic, which can carry over to different subject matters.

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