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Five Tips for Beginning Acrylic Painters

Five Tips for Acrylic Painters I have always loved watercolors but twenty years ago I switched to acrylics and have learned so much about the medium since then.  So, here are five tips about acrylics that I wish I had known from the very beginning.     Tip 1:  Acrylic paint will dry darker, the opposite of watercolor It took me a long time to figure this one out.  I would get the perfect color mixture on the palette and then later the color dried way too dark in the painting.  It was frustrating because then I had to add more white on top and then the painting appeared chalky or flat looking.  So I took my watercolor technique of...

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