How To Blend With Acrylic Paint

It's time to take your painting skills to the next level! In this guide, you will learn how to blend acrylic paint into smooth gradients even if you are a beginner. Acrylic paint is a versatile medium, allowing you to create beautiful paintings of any type. But how do you get those smooth blends? With these simple steps, anyone can master the technique of blending acrylic paint!

The best way to blend acrylic paint into a smooth gradient is to ensure you're using the proper paint consistency and the right type of brush. You'll want your paint to be creamy and flow easily, and use a filbert or a flat brush. The flat tip is better for creating smooth gradients.

I am myself, learning new tricks and tips every day, looking for pro artists sharing their expert opinions on blending. This is why I know how important learning and practicing are. And how important is to do your own research, mix the blending techniques and use what works best for you. I'm happy to share what I've found and what I've tried.

Table of content

What is color blending?
- Is blending and mixing are same thing?
What do you need to blend acrylic paint
How to blend acrylic paint
- 11 Blending techniques
How to make acrylic paint easier to blend
Blending acrylics FAQ

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What is color blending?

Blending is one of the practice techniques when different colors meet in a nice gradient to create strokes-free backgrounds, soft edges, or elements of abstract painting.

Soft edges can be used to create a natural blur, an almost seamless transition between colors. For instance, if we were painting an ocean scene, a sunset or sunrise, skin or deep water, then blended soft edges would work best as blending one object with another can create an effect of distance, focus, and height.

Every professional artist went through it and had to master it. Properly blended colors will distinguish your painting skills!

You should also be familiar with the color chart and understand which color can be blended. For ex., you can use this tool to find out which colors could make transitions between the two colors you picked: try Color Blender. Of course, you can come up with your own colors and experiment!

*I chose two colors and the app showed a palette for me.*

Blending VS Mixing

First things first, let's talk about blending vs mixing. It is not the same. You're mostly mixing colors on your palette to get a new color, a lighter one, a darker one, a more opaque one. You mix paint to get new colors you will work on the painting surface.

You blend colors directly on the surface to create a smooth effect when the brushstrokes are seamless. Blending often looks like a gradient. But when you mix colors, you mix them in one new solid color.

Blending acrylic paint is a skill we must learn, it may be tricky sometimes, especially for a few first times, but it will be alright! Believe me, blending acrylic paints is much faster than blending oils. and still could be as smooth and nice.

What to Use to Blend Acrylic Paint

When you're blending with acrylics, there are a few different items that will help you to create the perfect blends. I recommend getting a flat brush, a jar or container for water, and a paper towel. The paper towel will come in handy if you happen to blend too much paint. You may also need a palette knife and some supplies to keep your acrylics wet.

What to use to blend acrylic paint depends on what technique you choose. I will list all techniques below, don't worry, I got you!

Supplies to blend acrylic paint:

Slow drying medium: it can be a fluid retarder or open medium (if you use regular acrylic paint)
Acrylic paint:
- Slow drying paint or open paint like Golden Open Acrylics, or
- Regular acrylic paint of your choice (+ slow drying medium), or
- Interactive paint Atelier – it stays workable longer period
Glazing medium (if you go with glazing blending method)
Soft Brush:
1. 1-inch flat paintbrush will be great. Flat shaped brushes made of synthetic brusltes are soft and perfect for blending. Some people use wash brushes, mop brushes, blender make up brushes.
Stay wet palette to keep your wet paint (if you choose wet-on-wet method)
A jar of water to rinse brushes,
Paper towels or rag for cleaning,
Palette knife for mixing paint on the palette.

Optional:

a couple of extra flat brushes
masking tape if you want to create clean borders around your painting.
spray bottle.

HOW TO BLEND ACRYLIC PAINT

for beginners

There are multiple blending techniques that even a beginner can use to blend acrylic paint. Some of them need extra supplies and maybe trickier, some of them are super easy. But they all will need some practice. I recommend practicing on paper first and only when you're ready to move on to canvas.

The first step is to choose at least two colors that you want to meet and form a nice transition. If you think you need more colors, you can mix them on your palette using a palette knife, but don't premix all the colors – acrylic paint is fast-drying and you will only spoil it.

No matter what blending technique you'll choose, keep in mind these blending tips.

How to Make Acrylic Paint Easier to Blend

One of the most challenging things about using acrylic paint is how difficult they are to blend. If you want to make your paint easier to blend, try adding a little bit of water to the paints before you begin painting. This will make it easier for your colors to flow together and will also allow you to use less paint in general during your painting session.

An even better choice would be to use some slow-drying acrylic paint. Regular acrylic paint dries in 5-20 minutes and it is often not enough to work on blending. Almost all acrylics are fast-drying, except Golden Open Acrylics – they stay wet up to 60 min. – and Chroma Atelier interactive acrylics that can be reactivated with water.

Golden or Atelier paints are quite pricey, and probably you don't want to get them just to learn how to blend acrylic paint. No worries, you can still use your favorite acrylic paint, but just add some slow-drying mediums (also called retarders). Those mediums make acrylic paint dry slower, change the consistency a little bit to a thinner one, and increase your chances to blend it right!

A very simple way to male acrylic paint dries slower is to use a DIY stay wet palette or just buy one, as it's really very handful for acrylic painting. Basically, it is a normal palette, but the surface is moist, so acrylic paint can't dry as fast. You can also spray the paint or the painting surface with a little spray bottle.

Acrylic paint is easier to blend when it's not only workable longer time, but also flows smoothly. This is about paint consistency and viscosity. We don't need thick paint for blending, we need creamy thin almost liquid paint (also goes as low viscosity or liquid acrylics). You can either get soft body paint and thin it with a flow aid or slow drying medium, or High flow paint in bottles.

If your paint is too thick you will have visible strokes and will dry slower, but when the paint is too thin, the gradient will get messy.

To sum up, here are some tips on how to make acrylic paint easier to blend.

How to Make Acrylic Paint Easier to Blend: Tips for beginners

Practice to work faster: acrylic paint dries fast and you need to keep up.
Keep your paint wet and workable (use water or stay-wet palette, slow drying mediums, glazing mediums or special paint).
Learn more about Color bias – different colors can contaminate each other. Make sure you clean the brush to apply pure colors on the edges. Otherwise, your painting will get messy.
Keep the right paint consistency/viscosity – use a medium or a flow aid. The paint should be creamy and apply easily. Choose low viscosity paint or high flow paint.
Get a soft brush. Stiff bristles only work with thick paint and dry blending. For most blending techniques use a soft flat brush size 1.
Always use confident wide strokes across the painting surfaces. Try to go as straight as you can from one side to another. Use all width of your brush and always go all the way from one side to another.
Watch out the pressure you put on the brush and don't forget to overlap the layers of paint.
Always keep some paper towels around – get rid of extra water, paint excess and any mess.
Load your brush well – you need to have enough paint to go from one side to another, but do not let the brush drip.
Using water to spray and wet your palette, paint or painting surface keep an eye on drips – choose not so powerful sprays and keep a reasonable distance from your working area. A drop will ruin your blend.
If you see some hard edges or brush strokes, sometimes you only need to brush this area over couple of times, moving from side to side. That's it!
Master different techniques to find out your own way to quickly blend acrylic paint.
Keep in mind that regular acrylics tend to dry darker than they are wet! So some transitions may dissapear!

How to Blend Acrylic Paint: 11 Blending Techniques

          My experience and review upfront:          I've tried all techniques and I can say that          the best way to blend acrylic paint for beginner          is blending acrylic paint with water.          My favorite ways to blend acrylic paint          are wet-on-wet blending, blending without blending, and using a mop brush to blend. Yet, I'm abstract artist, so often I just blend colors with a palette knife.

Dry brush blending
How to blend acrylic paint with water:
1. Wet-on-wet blending
2. Wet-on-dry blending
Half-Half blending
Blending with a sponge
Blending with a palette knife
Blending with a mop brush
Blending acrylics like oils
Blending with glazing medium
Blending without blending
How to blend heavy body acrylic paint fast
Double "not really blending" technique for abstract painting

1 – Dry Brush Blending Technique

One of the easiest techniques to blend acrylic paint is dry blending as you basically don't need any additional supplies, just your paint, and a dry brush. You can even use a stiff brush here and you will be fine. Dry blending is literally scrubbing the paint into the painting surface and blending colors when they meet.

Supplies for dry brush blending acrylic paint:

regular acrylic paint, even heavy body or slow drying paint.
dry flat brush (stiff or soft doesn't matter).
palette.
painting surface.

My favorite brushes are Princeton Acrylic Paint Brush but you're welcome to choose whatever brush you like or can afford. I made a whole review of 22 acrylic paint brushes brands for you.

How to blend acrylic paint with dry brush:

Make sure your brush is comletely dry. Dry it one more time with a paper towel.
Pick your color, squezze a little bit on the palette.
Start with the first color at the bottom and scrub the paint onto the painting surface moving up. Try to keep the layer thin.
When you think it's time, dip the brush into the second color, without cleaning it, and start applying your second color.
Moving up, clean your brush and dip it again in the second color and finish the top with solid color.
This was your first layer, if you see some brush strokes or any white areas (your surface is showing up), apply the second layer once the first layer is dry! (up to 20-30 min).

Variation:

Make sure your brush is comletely dry. Dry it one more time with a paper towel.
Pick your color, squezze a little bit on the palette.
Start with the first color at the top and move down.
Mix a little bit of second color and keep moving down.
When you're in the middle of your painting surface, clean your brush and start applying pure second color from the bottom till the middle.
Once you've reached the middle again, blend the edges nicely, brush over several times to make sure the edges are soft.

This variation on How to blend acrylic paint is universal for dry and wet techniques.

I find this method quite hard if you're just starting painting. You need to really load your brush well and keep moving fast, as the paint is drying super fast!! Still, you'll get some brushstrokes and white areas, so you'll have to brush them over.

2 – Can you blend acrylic paint with water: Wet blending

Yes, this is probably the most obvious method – you CAN blend acrylic paint with water, some artists call it "watercolor technique", or wet techniques. This is the cheapest and most beginner-friendly option, as long as you don't get all messy with too much water.

There are some variations on how to blend acrylic paint with water:

you can just add water to your paint (wet-on-dry), or
both to your paint and onto your painting surface (wet-on-wet).

A) Blend acrylic paint with water: Wet-on-wet blending technique

The Wet-on-wet technique to blend your acrylic paint is natural and easy: both paint and surface are wet. That's all, no magic!

What do you need:

a soft brush: use a flat brush 1′ or round mop brush. They are both very affordable and will be useful in future.
jar of water.
regular acrylic paint or acrylic paint with increased flow capacity like Liquitex Acrylic Ink or Golden High Flow Acrylics*
palette or even Stay wet palette (from a store or DIY)
paper towels.

* Other brands can also have high-flow paint and be less expensive, but those two brands are the most reputable. Nothing wrong with using regular acrylics too! If you use inks, you may not use water.

How to blend acrylic paint with wet-on-wet technique:

Prepare water, paper towels, paint.
Squezze a little amount of 2 colors you've chosen on the palette and thin acrylics with water. You can use Titanium white to get the right color or nice opacity.
Soak your brush in water, brush it over a paper towel to make sure there is no drips.
You can spray the canvas or paper with a little bit of water too.*
Start applying wide strokes of paint from side to side. There are 2 ways of blending the colors:
- Usually, first color goes from top to bottom. Second color comes from the bottom and they meet in the middle of the paper (or canvas) forming a gradient.
- Altenatively, you can go from top to bottom with the first color, then dip the brush into the second color without rinsing the brush off and apply the transition color. Finally, getting closer to the bottom, rinse the brush and apply clean second color.
Try to go with straight lines from one side to another, evenly pressing on the brush (not too much pressure).
You may need extra layers to achieve nice instensity of the color gradient or leave it more transparent. Wait until the previous layer is completely dry (as we used a lot of water, it may take more time) or use a hair dryer to speed up the process.

We use water, so be careful with drips and don't overflood your painting surface.

Yet, watercolor is not as easy as acrylic paint and this technique has a trap: water is something we can't really control and the brush strokes will be not as even as with other techniques. They may look like a typical watercolor wash, so I would not recommend this technique for a complete beginner. Plus, I like and am used to more intense colors than the wet-on-wet technique may offer.

This technique works for larger areas both horizontal and circular blending. If you do circles, start in the center of the circle going to the periphery.

*Some artists even use the airbrush to moist the canvas, but it's a bit excessive if you don't have an airbrush to get one. So if you have one, consider this as an option.

B) Blend acrylic paint with water: Wet-on-dry blending technique

This technique is different from wet-on-wet blending only in one thing: your painting surface stays dry, you don't mist it with water. Only your brush or paint can be wet for this technique.

What do you need:

a soft flat brush 1′.
jar of water.
regular acrylic paint
palette.
paper towels.

How to blend acrylic paint with wet-on-dry technique:

Squezze a little amount of 2 colors you've chosen on the palette and thin acrylics with water if they are too thick and not creamy.
Cover your painting surface with first color (darker one) completely – it will be your base coat. Let it dry.
Start applying your second, lighter, color from the top or bottom (depends on your painting idea).
Without diping the brush into paint again, move with lighter color towards the middle of the painting surface where you want two colors to meet. You'll have less and less paint left on the brush and this is exactly what we need.
Keep moving towards the other edge of the surface with the same loaded brush. If the brush becomes too dry, dip it in the water – a little dip!!
Keep going with wide strokes until you like the smooth transition.

You may pick different colors and the result will be more distinctive than mine, the purpose was to show the process 🙏

If you don't like regular horizontal blends, you can do like Greg, he is creating beautiful blends with a wet brush:

3 – Half-Half blending

I'm sure the half-half blend technique was invented by a very creative artist and it is true, you can watch the video on Youtube! This is a very interesting way to blend acrylic paint, but I can't say that it will always work as you expect it.

What do you need:

large flat brush, like very large!
acrylic paint

How to blend acrylic paint half-half

Load one part (half) of the brush with one color and other half with another color.
Start with broad brush strokes in the middle of the canvas or wherever your colors are supposed to meet.
Slowly move up and down until you get a nice smooth transition.
Clean and dry the brush and apply clean solid colors on top and at the bottom, you want kind of reinsitute the two edges of the gradient.

I don't use this technique, but amazing Rinske Douna shared it on Youtube, please, have a look, she is a pro at blending!

4 – How to blend acrylic paint with a sponge

A sponge is a great alternative to a brush if you want to blend acrylic paint seamlessly! I've found that this creates better blends along edges than the palette knife or brush method. And for me, it's so much fun! The potential downside is you may not get as straight horizontal or vertical lines as you'll achieve with a brush.

What do you need:

a sponge
acrylic paint

But it only depends on what is your painting idea.

First, put some of the colors you want to blend on your palette.
Next, take your sponge and dip it in water or a medium (slow drying or flow improver).
Sponge one color towards the other color until they begin to slightly blend together.
Once you've created the desired effect, use your fingers to lightly rub the colors together to create a smooth blend.

5 – How to blend acrylic paint with a palette knife

Blending acrylic paint with a palette knife may be best for some abstract paintings. A Palette knife may give you a bit thicker paint layer than a brush, so it will dry slower. But I will be honest, working with palette knives is sooooo satisfying!

Smearing with your palette knife will create different effects depending on how much pressure you use, how fast you drag it across the colors, and how long you leave it in one spot. If there are any areas where paint is still globby or thick, try using your palette knife to spread and smooth the color.

What do you need:

a palette knife
acrylic paint

How to blend acrylic paint using a palette knife:

Apply paint directly on the painting surface on both edges.
Put your dry clean palette knife on one color and just start draging it from side to side moving towards the middle
Do the same with the second color. Work quick or use slow-drying mediums to make sure your acrylics don't harden sitting on the surface.
Let color meet in the middle
Go back to some areas where you are still not satisfied with the result. You can also clean the palette knife and add more clean solid color on the edges.

How to blend acrylic paint with a palette knife

How to blend acrylic paint using a palette knife

Sometimes I just squeeze colors next to each other and drag the palette knife across the surface. It's not quite blending, but it will create an interesting effect, very uncontrollable and unpredictable, but definitely beautiful. Such creativity will work best for abstract artists.

6 – How to blend acrylic paint using a Mop Brush

A mop brush is easy to get – it can be found at any store, it's cheap, and it can be really useful for blending. Mop brushes give a good blend of colors.

You will need a mop brush, ideally 1-inch:

buy a cheap one at any store you go often
buy a good one, like Princeton mop brush (they are my fav brushes, trully)
buy online a bestselling cheap one, like this Royal Brush.

So, basically, the process is the same as for other techniques:

You apply colors from both edges, moving towards the middle, overlaping them to create a gradient. Mop brush is a soft brush so it just helps to create more seamless background.

You can also use a mop brush with any other techniques and brushes. For example:

You've done a gradient using a flat brush, but still think it's not perfectly smooth. Then you take dry clean mop brush and just go over the area with circular or horizontal soft movements. Works AMAZING for clouds.

7 – How to blend acrylic paint like oils

The main difference between blending acrylic paint and oil paint is that oils dry so much slower that you can easily work with your gradient until it's perfect and smooth. The same flat brush works for blending oils, same main principles. Meaning, if you're curious about How to blend acrylic paint like oils, the answer is simple – make acrylic dry slower.

The most effective ways to slow acrylic paint dry time to blend it like oils are:

Using a paint retarder (buy one or make a diy paint retarder) or slow drying medium, OR
Using special acrylic paint that stays open and workable up to 1-2 hours. The only acrylic paint like this on the market is Golden Open Acrylics, OR
Using a special paint that dries slower and can be reactivater with water or special formula – the unique acrylic paint with such characteristics is Chroma Atelier interactive.

How to blend acrylic paint like oil:

Pick your colors, squezze them on the palette, mix with slow-drying medium if you use regular acrylic paint. Or just use Golden Open or Chroma Atelier.
Premix transition colors on the palette: for ex. if you're blending a sky, you may need light blue, some lighter blue colors and white.
Place colors on the painting surface without them touching each other or overlaping. Just apply them really close. It should look like a transition but without smooth effect.
Get a clean brush and moving with crosshatch strokes, blend colors edges until you get a seamless gradient. Use clean brushes for dark and light areas.
Finish transition with parallel strokes – it will help get back those wide transition lines.

This is one of the classic approaches to blend oil paint, that we can implement for acrylics.

Sometimes slow-drying acrylic paint may feel too long to dry. Don't worry! You can use a hairdryer to speed up the drying or next time, mix slow-drying acrylic paint with regular acrylic paint (both should be of good quality and ones you already know and tried!). The more normal acrylic you add, the faster the paint will dry.

8 – How to Blend Acrylic Paint With Glazing Medium

Blending with glazing medium also thin the acrylic paint and allow us to work with it for a longer period. Glazing medium is usually used to create diamonds like glazes, but they also significantly extend the working time of acrylic paint – bingo! They also will thin your paint to make it flow better.

I need to warn you that acrylic glazing medium will make your paint more transparent os sometimes you need extra layers.

          What glazing medium is good? Golden          or          Liquitex. But feel free to dig in and choose any for your budget and preferences. Here is the full category of glazing mediums.

How to blend acrylic paint with glazing medium

Pick your colors.
Paint the entire painting surface with one solid color. Let it dry. It will be our base coat.
Mix second color with glazing medium. For large projects ratio may be up to 1:4 (1 part acrylic glazing liquid to 4 parts of acrylic paint), but we can easily adjust it as we go.
Start applying the second color premixed with glazing medium from the bottom (or top, as you wish and as your idea goes).
As you move forward, add a bit more glazing to make the second color more and more transparent and make the base coat visible. Simply have a cup with a bit of glazing medium next to you and dip your brush in it.
If you think you need more layers – go for it, just really let the paint dry! Continue until you get a perfect gradient.

I don't have a glazing medium and never use it, but Chris Breier can teach you how to do it in like 3 minutes:

The main disadvantage of working with glazing mediums for blending is that it can leave some brushstrokes and it takes time.

9 – Blending without blending

If you need a gradient but you're scared of trying blending or you're not yet confident in your artistic skills, I have a trick for you: blending acrylics without blending! We will manually create a transition. This can take more time and the edges maybe not as smooth as with real blending, but it is a nice alternative for beginners. This method can actually work for small areas too!

What do you need:

large flat brush
acrylic paint

Pick your colors and think how many transition colors you want/need. Use color chart if you're totally condused.
Squezze colors onto the palette with Titanium white and premix your transition colors. You can still use slow-drying mediums to have more open time for blending.
Starting from top or bottom, lay out colors next to each other as if they form a gradient. Keep your brush strokes wide and firm. Each color – clean brush! Do not overlap the colors or blend them, just place them on the surface next to each other.
Done!

Again, Chris is a genius of blending, so here is him showing this technique (the video will start exactly from the technique):

What if I don't like how it looks?

The final blend will not actually look like a perfect blend. You can either leave it alone or get a dry mop brush and very gently try to smooth the edges. Gently moving from side to side, or, using oils technique, first going in zig-zag and then polishing it with wide straight parallel strokes.

10 – Fast Blending With Heavy Body Acrylics

Yes, I said that Heavy body acrylic paint isn't good for blending, but still, there is a chance to blend it seamlessly. But, you have to work fast. This blending technique is good for blending colors in small areas.

Heavy body paint is thick, has a high viscosity, and doesn't flow at all. Yet, it can be one of the easiest and smoothers ways to blend acrylic paint.

The heavy body will dry very fast, so either get a spray bottle and mist the paint while working or work really fast 🙂

What do you need:

large flat brush
Heavy body acrylic paint

How to blend Heavy body acrylic paint

Start with wide strokes of the first color form top or bottom.
Introduce the second color as you move, with the same brush.
When you're getting close to another edge of the surface, clean the brush and apply strokes of the second color.

Alternatively:

Apply both colors from both edges meeting them in the middle.
Get a separate soft brush and blend the middle transition area.

11 – Double blending

Double blending is also a technique more suitable for abstract painting. You actually have your paint loaded with two colors, you chose to blend. Sounds like a half-half technique, but with double blending, you don't necessarily keep colors apart on one half of the brush and another.

What do you need:

large flat brush
acrylic paint
jar of water

You load the brush with First color
Dip the loaded brush in white or any other color you want, but make sure you won't create a mess.
Using the full width of the brush, work from side to side with good strokes.
If you feel like the brush is too dry, dip it in water.

How to blend acrylic paint FAQ

How to blend acrylic paint after it's dried

Acrylic paint is fast drying and it is its big advantage and some sort of issue. Once acrylics are dried, there is no way you can reactivate them, except for Chroma Atelier acrylic paint – this paint stays wet longer and can be brought back to life with some water.

If you applied some strokes of paint on the canvas and they already dried, you can surely try to reactivate the paint with water, or simply put another layer over it (I wouldn't guarantee that it will work but it may).

How to blend acrylic paint in small spaces

To blend acrylic paint in small areas you can use some tricks: for instance, use blending without blending technique, when you just place similar transition colors very close to each other, without really blending them.

Don't get into small spaces with a lot of water or glazing – you can not only create a muddy mess but contaminate surrounding areas.

How do you blend acrylic paint smoothly?

The whole point of blending acrylic paint is to get smooth, soft edges. Use broad strokes to smooth acrylic paint, choose a flat brush, and thin your acrylic paint until it's creamy, or use fluid acrylic paint or a flow improver medium.

Get inspired and feel more confident with some more tips I shared above, just jump to Blending Tips for beginners to blend acrylic paint easier.

Don't worry if the blends don't look as smooth as you'd like at the beginning of your art journey, we've all been there, and honestly, I'm still working on my blending, as it is not something I do a lot. It comes with practice and sometimes you can even come up with your blending technique – there is no wrong approach, remember it!

How do you blend white acrylic paint?

Usually, Titanium white comes very handy while painting and blending. It can help you make acrylic paint more opaque, but also it can be the final color in your gradient. White acrylic paint can also be premixed to make smooth transitions on each step of the blending.

A little bit of white acrylic paint on a dry brush can also create a mist effect and smooth edges.

How do you blend acrylic paint without streaks?

Some streaks may appear while blending colors. This can happen for a couple of reasons: you didn't use enough paint or the quality of paint is very poor.

The second reason is the wrong brush and applying too much pressure on it – choose flat synthetic brushes (1 inch is ok) and always go through the whole stroke in one application. You can go over again later. Don't also forget that thin layers should overlap one another.

Different brands have different paint qualities, try to choose artist-grade paint.

You can also avoid streaks using a sponge or blender brush (mostly used for makeup) – they create very soft edges.

If you already have some streaks, you may consider leaving them as they are or fixing them by applying a second layer. Sometimes, you can always use a blender brush to smooth them.

Some Final thoughts

Always remember that practice makes perfect! Take some time every day to experiment and learn how different blending techniques work on their own as well as in combination with others. That way, when you're ready for more advanced tutorials, you'll have lots of experience under your belt! Blending is what sets apart great acrylic artists from beginners who struggle with creating smooth transitions between colors. Don't let yourself fall into that second category – keep practicing daily and soon you'll be producing paintings worth showing off!

Many different techniques can help you create beautiful blends when painting in acrylics. Try each one out and see which ones work best for your unique style of artwork! Practice every day so that the next time someone asks "how do you get those amazing transitions?", then you can proudly say, "I used my blending technique!" You've got this – no matter how difficult it might seem at first, remember that practice makes perfect! Keep working hard until all of your hard work pays off. Soon enough, people will be asking how to make their smooth blends in their acrylic paintings.

The most related post to this topic is my big study on How to make acrylic paint dry slower 15 Proven Ways How to Make Acrylic Paint Dry Slower & Homemade Acrylic Paint Retarder Recipe – I list 15 methods along with simple DIY recipes for a stay-wet palette and acrylic paint retarder. This is very useful for understanding acrylic paint, please, feel free to read it.