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I figured you had some sort of secret formula for a well thinned paint without runs or over doing it, this isn't exactly the best tutorial for thinning paint IMO. adding water and paint to a water based acrylic seems pretty simple.
Sorry but I think it is a bit poor. A tutorial must have more informations even if it is for beginners like 3 times of thinners, consistency, ect.
Beside them the video was nicely processed
So the first part of this tutorial is about the worst advice you can give any painter:
If you use a wet brush to think the paint like that then paint will seep right the way up to the ferule of the brush, it will dry there and will very quickly ruin the brush (as shown by the complete lack of point on the brush you've used). You'll also end up with a way too much paint on the brush that way too.
NEVER use the brush you are going to paint with to mix/thin your paint. Get an ultra cheapo brush and that should be used to thin and mix paint and ALWAYS use a palette, hell you can pick up a cheap palette for less than £1 or even an old plate/saucer will do a decent enough job (and a plate is actually easier to clean than a plastic palette).
Sorry to be ultra critical but it's little things like this that make the difference between a good and bad paint job.
yeah but seems more like a waste of time even watching. "just add water to right consistency you like" does just as much as this video. @1000moths, you don't necessarily ruin the brush that way, just makes it a pain to cleanup afterwards, but you are right that its not a good idea to mix with the brush you plan on painting with.
well distilled water is cheap (99 cents for a gallon) and I use that for my thinners anyways as the impurities are removed from the water. You should be using distilled over tap regardless of your water sources.
It's also important to use good thinning mediums as ordinary water doesn't always mix the pigments very well. I tried his version vs my ordinary mix and I found the overall paint layer to be somewhat broken and uneven.
It also helps to explain to a beginner the purpose of thinning the paint. If I had no idea, why would I thin my paint down at all? Theres a lot of good painters at the LGS that paint right out of the pot and do just fine with it. But to the beginner they cant really tell their paintjob from one thats been thinned down. The answer is they don't until they see that stellar paintjob they really wish they could do.
I like Mini's normal tutorials, but this one is a bit of a miss.
1000moths wrote: If you use a wet brush to think the paint like that then paint will seep right the way up to the ferule of the brush, it will dry there and will very quickly ruin the brush (as shown by the complete lack of point on the brush you've used). You'll also end up with a way too much paint on the brush that way too.
Thank you so much! I have always been wondering how my brushes get messed even though I took care not to dip the brush too far. It had never sunk in that if the brush is still wet it will suck it up to the ferrule. Thanks!
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