Video: Finishing Details for Acrylic Feather Painting

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Learn how to finish detailing when acrylic painting on feathers in this free video lesson on Southwestern art.

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Also, if you have made a couple of mistakes throughout the process, they're pretty easily fixed. With this feather here, I have brown and white. You can go in, grab a color that's as close to the feather color as you can get. You might have to mix some different colors around to get that partic watered downular color. You make a wash, a very version of that color. Again, because there is no finish on this, it'll soak right into the feather. You go in and you're just adding basically pigment on top of areas that you messed up on. What I've noticed in this area is that there are little white paint splatter. We're just going in and adding color on top of it to basically hide that. When it dries you won't even be able to tell it's there. Okay. Now, in the very, very final stage where you're going to start. Again, if you're doing a portrait or an animal and you're adding fur, very fine lines as far as fur or eyelashes, details in the eyes, you're going to again use a very very fine brush. Water down your color so it's very a thin paint and easily managed. You're just going to go in, make very simple light strokes for the eyelashes, for the hair and the eyebrows. If you want to add detail around the lips or the nose, go ahead and do that. Into the jewelry, add some shadow and light in there so it makes it more define. You have completed a feather. Also, very important, sign your name and the year.

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Finishing Details for Acrylic Feather Painting

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