How to Add Texture and Blend With Acrylic Paint

Working with acrylic paint produces a result similar to oils. Acrylic paint is water-based so it doesn't smell like oils and it comes in various densities and shades. Adding texture and blending colors is easy to do with acrylic paint.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Make Texture in Acrylic Paint

1. Use different painting tools like spatulas or sponges. You can spread acrylic paint or stamp it onto your canvas to create different texture. A flat edge smears thick lines or saws a thin line.
2. Find unusual objects to create texture. Objects like leaves, twigs or rocks create unique patterns and textures in thick acrylic paint if you press the object to wet paint. Try out items like the sole of a shoe.
3. Mix additives with acrylic paint to change the texture. Coarse pumice gel makes a crumbling effect like sand where a clean tar gel creates thin, fine-stream texture. Soft gels cause egg white type peaks and a matte thickens the density.
4. Add natural elements like sand or small pebbles to acrylic paint.

Blend With Acrylic Paint

5. Start painting your first color on the canvas. If you have a large area to paint, you may want to paint in sections.
6. Clean your brush with water and wipe on a paper towel or cloth.
7. Add your second color to the canvas. Once you reach your first color the paint naturally begins to blend, so start painting away from your first color.
8. Keep the paint wet. If you can't work quickly enough, add acrylic gel retarder to the paints on your palette or spray the canvas and palette with a mist of water to prevent drying.

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