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Top 5 Acrylic Paint Color Mixing Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 17 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Five reasons acrylic mixes turn muddy or dull and how to fix each: too many colors, ignoring pigment undertones, overlooking opacity, forgetting that acrylic dries darker, and adjusting value only with white, gray or black.
Chapters
- 0:00Intro
- 1:02Using too many colors
- 4:22Choosing colors with the wrong undertones
- 8:43Not paying attention to opacity levels
- 11:30Not realizing acrylic paint dries darker
- 13:01Using only white, gray or black to adjust colors
- 16:08Final thoughts
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