Sometimes you screw up and then you're free-hand painting things ( like I'm doing here with these fish).
This lavender hue is being put on quickly and will gel somewhat then I put on a dark charcoal shade on top. Then I'm taking fingertips to it to make it look like splotchy coral.
I'm shading this fish before I ever put coloration on them. The yellow I'm going to add is so translucent that you'll see all this shading.
This is acrylic, isn't it?
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Actually, um.. I used a too-strongly pigmented yellow and messed up. I've done this correctly before - by using an already thinned yellow hue and/or just adding water to the paint. I misjudged and put the strong stuff straight on. Now I think I'll have to sand them off the wall here and redo them. (sigh.....)
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