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I was wondering about feathering-- not wet blending or layering, but 'feathering' as shown in "How to Paint Citadel Miniatures." I have posted and searched for this topic on other forums and so far nothing.

Personally, I think I have it down, so maybe I'll just do my own tutorial. I believe feathering is the superior painting technique if you are using acrylic paint on miniatures, but I would love someone who really knows what they are doing to have some input on this.

Thanks to anyone who answers.

From watching the Hot Lead DVDs feathering is the process whereby a wet brush is used to run across the edge of a layer of paint, removing a little of it and helping it to blend in with the layer below. The lower layer needs to be dry or else you'll be doing wet blending. Seems to me to be a pretty effective way of blending without working wet into wet.

Post up a tutorial! I don't know how to do it, but I would love to learn

If you keep your paints thin and are working over a reasonable area, the layer tends to be dry enough to keep going without needing to wait between them. But I tend to do a hybrid of feathering and wet blending anyway. <.<

In house painting, feathering is when you cover a blemish or mark or missed spot with the same color, and then to cover the fact there's an extra layer of paint, you paint out from that spot in a lessening manner. Kind of blending a big swipe of fresh paint into the wall with a reducing drybrushing sense. It may sound crazy but if you don't you'll just see a big fresh swipe of paint on the wall. | | | | |||||| | | | | | instead of just |||||

I found this video on youtube, it looked great to me, but I'm far from daemon material