So add a touch of cadmium red into your yellow ochre and then test a swatch of that colour next to your existing portrait, you can then add a little bit more red if you feel it needs it and then paint a thin layer over the top. Hi Paulette, you won’t be able to paint the existing area out of focus if the acrylic has dried, it has to be blended wet-into-wet, but you can paint another layer of paint ontop to give a blurred finish. Would sanding it help to level the paint? This allows you to work more carefully on your artwork and give you more time to blend your colors evenly. The ridges occur if there is too much varnish on the brush when applying, and you’re right, applying to such a large area is very tricky with a brush. Cheers, Will, I’m finishing an acrylic painting of a still life and wanted to fix a bump(in the background area of the painting) I over sand it and a small part of the canvas lost its texture, as I went to paint back that specific area looks blurry as I try to match the colors of the background, the paint is not properly retained anymore. yes, it’s definitely possible to save the skin tones on your portrait. You will have to cover every area of the canvas. But new to acrylics. Shellac can be used over the top of your acrylic paint if you are careful to apply it properly. This is traditionally called a glaze, where thin layers of transparent colour are laid over dry paint to alter the appearance of the colour underneath, think coloured glass laid over a picture. Please help me! It´s an ugly smearing effect, where the paints underneath mix with those I´m adding on top. Thanks so much for your help if you can, Esther :). The canvas had been stapled onto various-height stools and encouraged to dip down in one spot, where the paint ran off the canvas into a basin. Hello Will my name is Brandon I’m a senior in high school and I just gessoed an old painting i had which had been done in acrylic. Hi Will. Found your website yesterday, and it is brilliant. So my question is could using acrylic in impasto save this canvas? A little paint goes a long way, so squeeze out only about 1⁄4 inch (0.64 cm) to begin with. Cheers, Will, Hi Will. If the pastel doesn’t ‘grab’ then you can add an acrylic medium such as an ‘acrylic pastel ground’ which gives an absorbent tooth for the pastels to adhere onto. Yes, you can. The new paint may stick initially, but long term it will have poor adhesion and may come off with the slightest scratch. The confused and deeply concerned Pope appeared at the scene and asked what is going on, to which Michelangelo replied “when it is sour throw it out!”. Period. Will, Hi Will, I have just started acrylic painting on canvas in the last few weeks and taken on board your advise. In your opinion when it comes to something like clouds was that a smart move? You must combine them in the correct amounts and they cure chemically instead of drying. All you need to do is rub it on liberally and then wipe the surface to seal it. I spent a lot of time making a very smooth surface on Baltic Birch. If necessary add some water to thin further. Thanks a lot for the help, it is greatly appreciated! SO SO I mixed Quick drying extender gel with acrylic medium and oil paint, big mistake, so now I would like to take it off ], as it has all all kind of balled together. Cheers, Will, Hi there I am fairly new to painting. You just gave a list of reasons on why not to. Hi Will, so my issue is that I started an acrylic painting, (no gesso), for a now ex boyfriend and I want to cover it and reuse the canvas. 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