always-challenging; Acrylics

 This Liquitex BASICS paint that I'm using here is about 20 years old.  Still good enough quality to use!

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.

Other side of the wall.

Looks pretty.  Doesn't it?  I'm not doing any short cuts with any of this.

It looks good from this angle

I really want to be done with this section of the wall by about the 10th.  ( I really already wanted to be done now).  Oh well.

The other section of wall will look really cool.

Coming out better than I hoped

 Lots of color.

I find that there are times when I'm just not sure what should be painted in.

Acrylic challenges

To add definition to this fish's fin, I added white lines, (using painters' tape).

And then painted red right over it. ( Its a translucent hue and you'll see through it.)

I'll paint in the blue dots that color this fish later.