How to Mix Colors on the Palette for an Acrylic Painting

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Melody on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show how to use some the tools to paint acrylic painting and I have some of the tools here that I'll go over and I'll even show you how mix some paint just a quickie just to show you how it works and the best way to do it. A lot of people grab the brush and they just stick it in there and start smashing it around get a big glob of paint on the sides and that's not a really good thing for your brush and also is a waste and then you'll have to throw it way. So I'll just start by doing a little bit of mixing and then we'll just show you what these other things are for. Take something like this these are called knives, palette knives. And I have so many they each do a different thing or you can get just about do everything. I just keeping collecting them this one is my old faithful favorite from my very first are kit. I'm just going to grab anyone today just to show that it can be done this is small, this is small, and as for the palette you can have a big palette, you can have just a flat surface, a Masonite board with a whole in it for your thumb and then you hold it with your hand and that seems to be more convenient than this sometimes. Unless it's just going to be on the table but I'm just using it for convience for this demonstration. We'll just take a little of this white, a little bit of this green on our knife and we'll put it together you want to mash it down and scoop it together and just keep scooping and mashing until you choose a desire color that you want. And that's another story another segment of color and color wheels and how make colors and how to make red and blue become purple and things like that so here we have a lighter green and can put yellow into that green and make it even another color we'll do more on that later, just wanted to give you an idea what these are for and what this does, so put this to the side for a minute. This is a unique item, I know its a spoon, I know it's a spoon people say ya uh right, your eating during your painting, no what you do is take a little of your paint that you mix into your palette so your making a painting so its a prominent orange, or yellow, or greens, you can put a big section of paint here and then while your painting so you don't touch your painting or have a tendency of waiver you set this on the side and you hold your brush and arm on it and hold your brush kind of free. But if you need to get into there you go something to keep your arm off of the painting and then you got your paintings there. We'll show you some more of these and how to use them in the next segment so we'll be back in a minute."