Acrylic Retarder

[U4-Welcome]

And to add to his enthusiastic description, I\'ll confirm it really works. That\'s, for instance, more or less how I did the blending here.

 

[Valander]

Originally posted by U4-Welcome
And to add to his enthusiastic description, I\'ll confirm it really works. That\'s, for instance, more or less how I did the blending here.

Yay! Good to know that I\'ve made a convert!

That\'s some damn nice work, there, U4.

 

[mickc22]

Originally posted by torifile
I use Liquitex Slow-Dri Fluid Retarder, along with Winsor & Newton Acrylic Flow Improver and water, and it works pretty well (doesn\'t taste too good, though!)

.......oh, I thought that was the distilled water......lol

 

[Cerridwyn1st]

Originally posted by airhead
Oh my dear sweet Tooshy. Tweening is a neat form of blending that works something like this:

Paint one half of the sword with the darkest metal color. Paint the other half with the lightest. Now, go back into the middle third and paint it with a 50/50 blend. Top 1/6 with a 75/25 mix light/dark and the bottom 1/6 with a 25/75 mix. Keep halving the area and mixing the color in-between until the blend appears smooth. Clear as mud?

Now where did you learn that? All hail Thierry Husser, God of Paint and Tweening.

If you move quickly enough with this, you end up wetblending, because the paints are still damp. You can feather the damp paints together at the edges of the color transistions and get even smoother blends.

 

[Calavera]

Now.. I think Gel Retarder ain\'t so bad.
What I do is put a little blob on the palette with my index finger and then rub it out a little, then mix it with a drop or two of water and then put the color I\'m working with on that area. Doesn\'t really change the consistency and.. it works

 

[airhead]

Originally posted by Cerridwyn1st...Now where did you learn that? ...

From you last weekend, but I sounded so much like I really knew what I was talking about.

Besides, I am still in Tooshie\'s doghouse.:innocent:

 

[Cerridwyn1st]

Originally posted by Calavera
Now.. I think Gel Retarder ain\'t so bad.
What I do is put a little blob on the palette with my index finger and then rub it out a little, then mix it with a drop or two of water and then put the color I\'m working with on that area. Doesn\'t really change the consistency and.. it works

What a cool idea. I have some of the stuff, and I\'ve been at a loss for what to do with it.

Originally posted by Airhead
From you last weekend, but I sounded so much like I really knew what I was talking about.

Besides, I am still in Tooshie\'s doghouse.

He he, couldn\'t resist the urge to poke fun. I did have a good time last weekend. You were the only one who really \"got\" the seminar on painting eyes and faces. (sigh) Have you had a chance to practice the technique since then?

 

[mickc22]

Originally posted by Calavera
Now.. I think Gel Retarder ain\'t so bad.
What I do is put a little blob on the palette with my index finger and then rub it out a little, then mix it with a drop or two of water and then put the color I\'m working with on that area. Doesn\'t really change the consistency and.. it works

me too...although I put a little blob in a spare mixing pot and then thin it
........I then have enough for the whole painting session not just one color