Video: How to Create Orange Paint for Murals

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How to properly mix your paint to create the color orange for your wall mural; learn tips and techniques for painting wall murals in this free online art lesson about painting murals taught by expert Angela Bracasso.

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ANGELA FRACASSO: Hi, I'm Angela at ExpertVillage.com. And in this segment, I'm just showing how I'm trying to mix the right color of orange for our construction sign. So I didn't have that orange so I'm just going to kinda do guesswork. So I'm just bringing in some bright orange paint with my Benjamin Moore paint. And once again, that's the beauty of acrylics; you can mix all the different acrylic mediums together to get your right color. So I'm going to need a really bright color so I'm probably going to need to add a pinch bit of red to this to make it the right color. Those orange construction signs are kinda bright. And sometimes you need to just keep messing with it and sometimes you end up with a lot of paint but that's what you gotta do to get the right color sometimes. So I've got a flat brush here and the reason why is because I like this--to use flat brushes for solid colors. It has a better coverage and it covers better. So I think that's about right. I'm going to go ahead and paint this in. And I might have to do two coats but that's okay. And if you wanted, you can roll this on, I suppose, because it's just a solid color, put it on or whatever. Well, I guess whatever is the easiest for you. I think we got the right orange there. It looks like I'll definitely need to do two coats on this one. Some of the brighter colors don't fill in the solid.

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How to Create Orange Paint for Murals

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