Acrylics and WATER

  Water for Painting

      No, painting with acrylics is not like painting with water colors, but it still can be quite similar. Water is used to give paint a more smooth stroke, and to make acrylics less clumpy if it happens to be that way. Acrylics don't need much water to wash the paint off your brush, since you can simply use a napkin to wipe the paint off, but washing your brush when you want to change colors can be beneficial to a wonderful painting. It also depends on how you look at your colors. I paint, but I don't wipe ALL the color off my brush at times, because a blue with a hint of leftover black from your brush can create a cool effect, or pink with a hint of purple from your brush. Looks amazing, really.

   

Obama Painting for All You Obama Fans

"Obama with Liberty Flag"

Painted with acrylics on canvas.

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"Here I Am"

Drawn with #2 Pencil, Colored with soft graphite pencil 6B and color pencils

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Underpainting

   Underpainting is basically adding an opaque color to the base of the painting; much like building the foundation of a building before constructing the building itself. Usually a thin layer of white is added to the pre-draw on the canvas. Just filling in the spaces and outlining the lines. Then you can layer on other colors, mostly blue or purple to show lighting. The final layer is the real colors of the subject. Experiment with underpainting and it can transform amateurish paintings into a bit more like the professional ones.