Translucent and Opaque

  Without an underpainting, acrylics can become translucent a bit. Like the colors yellow, pink, and blue can all become quite translucent. Great for painting windows and glass, but maybe not so much when it comes to painting other subjects. To fix this problem you can add an opaque color to the translucent color, like adding white to yellow or black to blue. The color will change, so if a change in color is not of your preference then be sure to do an underpainting. I will explain underpainting in the next post.