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Blocking Color In Acrylic Painting

Blocking color is a skill every artist should have for acrylic painting. Learn how with the tips from an expert in this free art lesson video clip on painting with acrylics.

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So now we're going to get to the fun part and we are going to start mixing the colors. I've taken my colors and as you can see I laid them out on the plate here and now I'm going to dip a medium size brush and start mixing. I'm going to look at my grapefruit here and see sort of what color I want the main color to be, that is probably going to be the most paint that I'm going to mix. So I'm getting sort of a nice light peach color here as you can see and then it has some sort of pink in there as well. I'm going to mix up a little bit of that color so I can have a little variation and then for my shadows I'm probably going to use some blue. I like to use I remember one of my teachers said that shadows are never black so I like to use blue or purple, something like that. I'm just going to go ahead and mix my shadows.

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Blocking Color In Acrylic Painting

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