9 Acrylic Blending Techniques

In this video, I demonstrate various acrylic blending techniques and provide tips for keeping the paint wet while you blend. Below is the table of contents and the time stamps. You should be able to click on the time to jump to the beginning of that section.

1 Use slow drying acrylics or add retarder to the paint 0:00
2 Use Atelier Interactive acrylics that you can reactivate 2:21
3 Blend acrylics by using watercolor techniques 3:51
4 Blending acrylics with acrylic glazing medium 5:40
5 Work quickly and in thicker layers 6:40
6 Mist the paint with water to keep it wet 7:55
7 Use dry brushing to create blends 8:58
8 Place similar colors next to each 10:07
9 Allow the brushstrokes to show 12:20

[crankcuffin]

I've been struggling for ages with blending. I've just watched your excellent video and just painted several near perfect blends! Thank you thank you thank you. :)

[breenaner]

I have watched a ton of acrylic painting videos on youtube and this one is the most helpful. THANK YOU!

[pandaohyeah]

You are such a good painter Chris Breier. I love ur color matching vids me and my sis are so amazed especially when u put magenta in like gray it’s crazy! I love ur channel

[pamelawissinger]

Very helpful information. Thank you. Your outline is a good list to jog our memories. I like the details about the different thicknesses and qualities of paint. Also like your demos.

[ikshihab]

Omg you are such a master 🤩
This video gave me hope to proceed and saved my art 😃
THANK YOU INDEED !

[AlejandraRafa]

Great video, lots of info and straight to the point. Thank you!

[oilonpaper]

Very helpful video! I'm fairly new to acrylics, so I will give these techniques a try. Thank you!

[traneko]

This was more helpful than most blending demonstrations. I came here specifically looking for help with Opens. Unfortunately there isn't much out there on these paints.

I'd really like to see a demonstration of re-opening sticky or drying Open paint for further blending using Open medium, as described by Golden. So far, it hasn't worked for me.

[vflytrap]

Blending is so easy on the little canvases. So much harder on the big canvas

[curtriceennis]

TY for sharing these techniques. They are all worth trying, but, I must say how the "watercolor" technique isn't my favorite.

[whiteblossom]

Thuz looks great but the suze if u canvas tiny winy what about a large canvas???

[NotAppIicabIe]

Oh jeeze. I was just trying to blend two colors into each other without making any other transition shades. And I wondered why it wasnt smooth..

[JustBeYouooh]

How do I blend lines? Like the outline of background shadows of a painting with a woman in the front ?

[alluringtemptation]

WoW! I Absolutely LoVe 💘 Ur Vids! Thank You Soo Much, Really Healped Us out. My MoTher, SiSter, Niece & My Self Tremendously!
Sending U Blessings..