How to Make Your Paint Colors More Opaque!

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When working on painted projects one of the biggest factors artists face is how well the paint they're using covers other layers of paint. The simple reality is that most acrylic paints are fairly translucent which means that that artists needs to spend a lot of time painting layer upon layer to get the desired level of coverage.
In this art studio hack, mixed media artist Spider Graham offers a quick and easy way to give your existing paints more opacity and to dramatically increase the color coverage of each layer.
To check out Spider's virtual gallery, please visit www.SpectivaStudios.com.
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27 фев 2023

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@rachelsremedies2602 5 месяцев назад

Thanks , that really helped! ❤❤

@angiewillsonarte 6 месяцев назад

Excellent tutorial on a basic skill I tend to forget!!

@mixedmediamasters 6 месяцев назад

It's almost counter intuitive that the color we use to make other colors paler is the same color we use to make them stand out!

@Russ-gy7tx Год назад

I use those plastic lids too!

@mixedmediamasters Год назад

Right? I refer to them as my really inexpensive ramekins

@seanbohan3676 Год назад

I find that adding white will desaturate the color I am adding it to. Would you suggest (in the example in this video) painting a stripe of white over the black first and then your color over that (now dried) white?

@mixedmediamasters Год назад

That could be a perfect solution providing you don't mind some of the white invariably remaining as part of the background color.

@Brightsupernova 6 месяцев назад

I had a good laugh at the “watching the paint dry”

@mixedmediamasters 6 месяцев назад

I have found that being creative comes with a need to be patient!

@MrSerghei1981 9 месяцев назад

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@kayjohnson4639 9 месяцев назад

Would the red look redder if the second coat was just red w/o the white? I like the practical, no nonsense advice! Thanks!

@mixedmediamasters 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely! As long as the tinted red/pink covers the black line with the first coat, then red could be painted over it to brighten things up

@ilovebrean 9 месяцев назад

How I wish I had seen this before I’ve done about 1000layers of yellow over a dark blue and getting no where 😂

@mixedmediamasters 9 месяцев назад

Yellow really can be an annoying character!

@dr.sidrasunsaid8621 9 месяцев назад

But how to maintain the shade ....mixing white is what actually makes color shade lighter

@mixedmediamasters 9 месяцев назад

Agreed, the white does tint the paint. However, you can cover dark areas with the tinted paint and add a layer of full color on top of that if you don't want the color to be too pale.

@timhartwick1986 6 месяцев назад

You would lay down white, let it dry and then paint the shade on top of the dry white.

@mixedmediamasters 6 месяцев назад

@@timhartwick1986 A good option, as well, providing the top color isn't too translucent.

@LizzieMayne 6 месяцев назад

Could you not add a white layer first, let it dry then add the yellow so the white doesn’t make the colours pastelly

@mixedmediamasters 6 месяцев назад

One possible issue is that if you put the white down first and then paint yellow over it, if the yellow is fairly translucent (which it often is) then the white may show through and change the color tone anyway. It would most likely take several coats of the yellow paint to cover up the white that way.