🖌️ Painting - Blending
Updated at 2020-05-06 16:08
Blending is merging two colors to create a gradient for transition.
Palette Blending:
- Place two paints on your wet palette close to each other.
- Use your brush to take paint A and smear it somewhere on the palette.
- Use your brush to take paint B and smear it in the same place to create a blend.
- If you need to make it darker or lighter, use your brush to get more color from the piles.
Palette Wet Blending:
- Place two paints on your wet palette close to each other.
- Place a couple drops of water between the paints.
- Start dragging one of the colors towards the other one with your brush.
- Clean your brush.
- Start dragging the other color towards the other one with your brush.
- With some practice, this will create a nice gradient between the two.
- If you used enough paint, you can use the resulting mixtures for gradients.
Wet Blending:
- You are basically smudging two layers of acrylic paint together; like with oil colors.
- Don't use too thin of a paint; but not too thick either.
- While still wet, apply another paint near the edge of the previous paint with strokes.
- This will create a gradient between the two colors if done properly.
- Having both paints ready on your palette is essential for this to work.
- If you find wet blending hard, you can first paint the areas with solid colors then quickly reapply and blend the colors on the edge of the areas.
- You can also use retarder in the first paint to make drying take longer. Just dampening your brush in a drop of retarder is enough.
To finalize, you can also use thinned inks to make darker areas more vibrant.