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Jamastiene

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2. I just use the cheap little DecoArt Americana

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Wed Apr 29, 2020, 09:09 AM

Apr 2020

acrylic paints and they seem to do just fine with one coat, but I do prime pretty much everything I paint with a coat of white paint (same brand) first. Mostly, I paint woodworking projects and whatever things that I carve.

One really cool yellow effect I got one time was using Spice Islands Turmeric mixed with alcohol and soaking a bamboo chopstick in it. It turned the chopstick into this beautiful yellow color and you could see the veins more clearly. I was experimenting that night for a moss terrarium stand decoration I needed to make and had all kinds of things mixed together.

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Question for acrylic painters [View all] bif Apr 2020 OP

Try cadmium yellow deep, and if you want thicker texture add neo-mcgilf brush Apr 2020 #1

Thans! bif Apr 2020 #5

Most brands, with a good gesso ground, will work. brush Apr 2020 #7

I just use the cheap little DecoArt Americana Jamastiene Apr 2020 #2

Very cool. Yep, turmeric is pretty intense bif Apr 2020 #4

i second brush, and mopinko Apr 2020 #3

I haven't tried washes yet. bif Apr 2020 #6

do more, do more, do more. mopinko Apr 2020 #8