5 tips you should always do when using acrylic paint,Clive5art

today five things you

should

always

do before

paint

ing with

acrylic

paint

very simple

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some of these you have seen before others you will not have seen before and let's go directly to tip number one, although this is how we choose our canvas We have the correct size canvas for the painting and we want to do and this is the first thing you

should

always

do. I emphasize this in every video and that is the plaster of your canvas. It is very important even with prior priming. canvases, you know you can buy them at the two port Jessel store, you can make your own plaster, there are recipes on the eye cards so you can follow them and all you need to do is put on a couple of coats of plaster, now what does this?

This is very, very, very important, if you don't do it Jess or you could get grease stains, your paint will not glide smoothly on the canvas, your paint will be absorbed into the canvas, it will make your life very difficult, even if Even if are you an experienced advanced expander or yeah, it's very important if at first you have to go spend money to get some gesso or even make your own Jess or please, please. I can't emphasize this enough, this stage is very, very important, there are lessons in there that I will put on the I cards to show you, but the first thing is to make sure you do this at least twice, at least twice, that will make your life. be better. much easier and that brings me to tip number two um tip number two it's so easy now that we've moved on we put this is our third court or second court of plaster that we just put on our canvas and it's still wet before it sets dry, we need to put a base on it.

The base is basically the color you choose specifically for your paint. Some people like burnt umber moans. Some people like yellow moans. Some people like pink moans. No I don't know, but this particular painting and I'm going to paint. I'm going to put some blue paint on that plaster since it's still wet and all I have is standard

acrylic

paint in a little tab like this and I'm just going to put that on it, it doesn't matter if there are brush marks or if it's perfectly smooth or not, all you're aiming to do here is basically get rid of the white background of the canvas, which will help you dramatically with your tones.

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there's a lot of white there, it's a bit like walking through Antarctica without sunglasses, you're going to go blind as snow and in this case you become color blind because white really affects your perspective as far as tones are concerned, so What is It is important that you put a little tonal color and by mixing a little acrylic paint into the plaster you will not lose the consistency of the surface if you wait for the plaster to dry and then apply the soil.

They basically put pure acrylic on top of a gripping surface and that will be slightly smooth, which is not what you want. You want a surface that has food on it that makes painting with acrylics much easier, it certainly does. That's tip number two. Tip number three, yes three, tip number three again is related to the canvas, this will make your life even easier

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it comes to painting, so we need to turn the canvas over like this if you don't have any of these wooden things. called keys, so don't worry, I'm not going to put them in this case, but that's what it does, they go in these little slots and it stretches the canvas, it goes in before we do that, all I do before every session , unless it's a canvas board which is different, so if I'm painting on canvas I wet and I moisten the back of the canvas like that and that's all I do, I give it a good soak, what's it going to do, what's going to soak into the canvas fibers because there's no paint on this site, it's going to soak in, it's going to keep that surface wet and it's going to stop the paint from going through and evaporating like this, because this moisture is wet on the back, it's going to stop the problem. of evaporation.

Now I attach my canvas to my board with a little blue tack, but 99% of the time you just place it on your canvas like this on your easel and continue painting if at any point you think it needs another wet one, flip it over. about redoing that process and that will save you a lot of time and make your painting a lot easier. That's tip number three. Tip number four takes us to the palette. Now it's important that you set your palate the same way almost every time. I don't mean by putting your colors in the same place, what I'm saying is put your warm colors, your reds, your oranges, yellows on one part of the palate, put your cold ones, your blues and greens and things like that on the other. half the color. your neutrals, your brown, your white and your black, which you use to change your tones, on the one hand, place the palate however you want and there you will know that every time you go you will know approximately where your warms are and where. your sodas are a lot of neutrals our mixing life is easier, but that's not the tip, the tip is if you're going to use water, make sure you have two different containers, one to wash your brush and one to dilute your rose, so that's important because there's no cross contamination with your paints, always have at least two bottles and what I would say about water is that it's very important that you don't dip the brush like that, don't dip the brush like that, that doesn't work, everything. what you need to do is just put the brush right to the side like this, just pick up a little bit of moisture, scrape the moisture off the brush and then continue with the painting. and then I will dilute it enough, don't forget that too much water is dangerous for the paint because it will break down the polymer molecules in the paint and bind it together, which is not what you want, so if you are going to use water use replacement in amounts of water the other thing is while I'm at it is don't leave your brushes in tubs like this because they will bend over time they will bend like this and that's not what you want to even have an irregularly shaped brush so always wash your brushes with dirty water, rinse them quickly with clean water and place them and before painting or always wet your brushes first, that will save you time and improve your paintings. work much smoother, that's tip number four, tip number five is very simple, you've seen me, I use it countless times during painting, in fact, it's in every video and, what do I mean?, it's just, it's a wet palette, very important for a critical painting because it stops the evaporation of the paint, the paint dries with evaporation if we can stop the evaporation of moisture into the paint then it will last much longer and take much longer to dry, that's why we have gone Through the process with the canvas and the process of pre-soaking the brushes, this brings me to the wet palette.

So what is a wet palette? Well, it's basically just a box that has a dish towel in it or whatever is absorbent. The base comes with a lid which I explained very quickly, so all you need to do is take some water. You put a little water on the wet paddle area. I have a little more there. Where is my water? Then I put a little more water. you want it pretty you want it pretty moist that's basically if you want to know how to get the best out of a wet popsicle then just watch the videos and there are also links now that I have greaseproof paper or parchment paper for baking. paper, anything like that that has them, it's like a waxed Cortland, it won't affect your paint, it'll just stop the pink that I'm sticking on, that's all, so we need a place of that on our wet palette if you want something a little bit more resistant, then I suggest you use tracing paper.

I cut it to the size that always works. I've found over the years that this is the best system for me, but it may not necessarily be the best system for you. Paper can work very, very well, so if I have something else, use that and then it goes when we put our paints down, we replace our paints in sequence and then we have our warm colors in an area where we have our cool colors. In the other area we have our neutrals there. When we finish our session, we can replace the lid that way, which will allow the palette to sweat a little, always leave a little space for some air to come out, otherwise, you will find that your paints don't go away, they don't go away.

They'll dry out, they'll just become very runny, that's not what you want, always leave a little space, that's tip number five now, if you use all of these five principles that you were going to follow. You will find that your painting experience will be much more enjoyable, you will have much more fun, you will find that the pink goes on smoothly and you will also find out if it doesn't dry like that. Quick, the other thing is what I suggest you do before you start painting, is just take a container of water like this, a stately bottle, and lightly go over the front of that canvas surface or even the canvas board , not too much. canvas boards because they are cardboard and that will allow the paint to spread smoothly and not dry as much, so if you liked these

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