Article · Artweb
The Art of Creating Color Washes
By Carol Burns
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
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.
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