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Arts & CraftsHow to Paint with Acrylics

How to Mix Acrylic Paint Colors

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Hi, I’m Linda. I created a company called Paint Along. Check us out at paintalongnyc.com. We have really fun painting workshops in Nashville and New York.
When you buy your acrylic paints you may want initially to spend some time just getting to know how they work together, how they blend, and how much paint takes to make a secondary color.

The primary colors are Yellow, Red and Blue, and you cant mix anything together and you’ve got to start whit these.

So let’s start whit the yellow, and what we gonna do is mix yellow and red together and that will give us some orange.

And I am just gona dip a little bit into the yellow, and bringing it to the other wells, and Im gona take a little bit of red, now the red is usually a lot stronger than the yellow, so I am just gona start whit a little bit of red to make the orange, and those to colors together make me an orange shade.

I’ll go ahead and put it right here, and lets put a reference of red onto our canvas too.

So coming out around well take some of our red and will put int into another well and then i’m gona mix some blue into it, this will make purple.

When you’re mixing you’re colors whatever you’re working on is far as your subject matter just make sure that you mix enough paint so that you can get trough your project without having to remix, because sometimes the colors come out differently when you start over again.

Here is my purple, and then we’ll put a reference of blue on here as well.

So i’m gona take a little bit of yellow and put into the well here , and taking some of the blue and mixing it into the yellow, and that gives us green!

So now we have formed our Primary colors Yellow Red and Blue, and our secondary colors which are orange green and purple. And thats how you mix your paint!


Lessons in this Guide

How to Use a Palette Knife with Acrylic Paint

What Is Acrylic Paint?

Paint Supplies You Need for Acrylic Painting

How to Prepare Your Canvas for Acrylic Painting

How to Pick Paintbrushes for Acrylic Painting

8 Acrylic Painting Techniques

How to Mix Acrylic Paint Colors

How to Control Opacity & Brightness with Acrylic Paint

How to Keep Acrylic Paint from Drying Too Fast

How to Paint with Acrylic Paint without Using Brushes

How to Paint with Acrylic on Hardboard or Wood

How to Paint a Simple Background with Acrylic

How to Paint a Mottled Background Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint Perspective with Acrylic

4 Brush Stroke Techniques for Acrylic Painting

How to Add Texture & Blend with Acrylic Paint

How to Paint Shadows & Highlights with Acrylic Paint

How to Sponge Paint with Acrylic

How to Glaze Your Acrylic Paint Work

How to Paint an Abstract Flower Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint a Tulip Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint with Acrylics with Linda Rhea

How to Paint a Landscape Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint the Sky Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint a Tree Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint Waves, Rocks & Surf Using Acrylic Paint

How to Paint a Basic Sunset Using Acrylic Paint

What is Color Theory?

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