Video: Dry Brushing Painting Techniques

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Find out what dry brushing is and the proper consistency for the paint to be adding using this painting technique. Learn this and more in this free video art lesson about painting as taught by expert Matt Cail.

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The first advanced painting technique we're going to cover today is called dry brushing. Dry brushing is basically when you have an under layer of paint, which is already dry. We're actually going to be putting in very light layers of additional wet paint on top of it, but we're not going to be using any media. The paint you're going to be putting on top is not going to be runny. It's actually going to be quite thick and the color is going to be very concentrated. Here I've taken a round brush with some titanium white. What I'm going to do in here is have a little bit of surf bubbling up over here, a little bit of ocean spray coming up over the side. Basically, with little flecks. Again, nothing big. I start very gently dabbing in here. There's not a lot of mixing that goes on here and the paint is very, very solid. It actually is over the blue, but there's not a whole lot of it. This isn't like one big uniform white blob coming up over here. Keep going on here and try to keep your strokes random. You don't want to get it to where it's like da da da da. Definitely keep a randomness to them. You can't go back over. Flick a little bit, but don't over do this because you don't want to get a blotchy look. You want some of the color to remain very concentrated and in contrast to background with the ocean. Keep doing this until you run out of color, then get more paint, and you can repeat. Just make sure not to over do it. You should always be able to see some blue through this with the ocean spray. Again, it shouldn't be a solid line of white in here. If it solidified, you lose the dry brush effect.

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Dry Brushing Painting Techniques

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