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The Art of Creating Color Washes

By Carol Burns

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2023
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About this lesson

A practical guide to laying thin, translucent color washes with acrylic: mixing roughly one part paint to three parts water, applying it top to bottom with a large dry brush or sponge, and blending with a rag to build the kind of thin layered fields used in color-field painting.