Ghost Week concludes with a trickier project: airbrushing with tube acrylics.
Predictably, the main challenge was to find a way to thin the paint so it wouldn’t clog the brush. For the background hues (raw and burnt sienna) I used a thinner designed specifically for airbrushes. The results weren’t perfect, but they at least suggested possibilities.
Insert “why can’t anyone cook sienna just right?” joke here.
I mixed water into burnt umber for the foreground, and the paint turned patchy (as it did yesterday when I tried the same thing with traditional brushes). Here it was kind of a fun effect, though.
One of the big advantages to working with acrylics is that they’re opaque and will cover the layers beneath them. So I was able to paint the entire frame with the lighter background color and then mask for a chessboard of the darker background color on top of it.
This also allowed me to do all of the pencil sketching on the masking film rather than drawing lines on the board itself.
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