Article · Colorful Craft Corner
How to Paint a Galaxy – Easy Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By Paula
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2022
About this lesson
Builds a sponge-painted galaxy on a black base: choosing a limited palette, working dark blues in from the edges, sweeping lighter blues into a Milky Way curve, touching in pink and white highlights, re-darkening for balance, and spattering thinned white for stars.
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