Acrylic Paints and Thinning Them for Airbrushing - Grimvisions http://www.grimvisions.com/technique/acrylic-paints-and-thinning-them-for-airbrushing Where Grim Visions Become Dark Art Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:13:25 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Acrylic Paints and Thinning Them for Airbrushing - Grimvisions http://www.grimvisions.com/technique/acrylic-paints-and-thinning-them-for-airbrushing/comment-page-1/#comment-995 grimvisions Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:34:06 +0000 http://www.grimvisions.com/?p=782#comment-995 Kimily, Oops. I have done that as well, even when thinning them I have accidentally not thinned them enough and clogged it up something fierce. Always try and get them about the thickness of milk. For now if you are just playing around and learning you can thin with water. But getting some airbrush medium would be a good thing. Also there are some decent pre-mixed airbrush paints out there that are reasonably priced. Grim Kimily, Oops. I have done that as well, even when thinning them I have accidentally not thinned them enough and clogged it up something fierce.
Always try and get them about the thickness of milk. For now if you are just playing around and learning you can thin with water. But getting some airbrush medium would be a good thing. Also there are some decent pre-mixed airbrush paints out there that are reasonably priced.

Grim

]]> Acrylic Paints and Thinning Them for Airbrushing - Grimvisions http://www.grimvisions.com/technique/acrylic-paints-and-thinning-them-for-airbrushing/comment-page-1/#comment-992 Kimily Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:19:11 +0000 http://www.grimvisions.com/?p=782#comment-992 I made the rookie mistake of unpacking my new airbrush, filling the bottle with Black acrylic craft paint, start spraying and have nothing happen. First off... I didn't shake the bottle but once, of craft paint. Secondly... I didn't read a friggin then online about thinning with airbrush medium. Found out the hard way. Took me half an hour to get the thing unclogged!!! Only because I'm new at the airbrush, I'm sure it would have taken much less time if I was use to cleaning it. None the less... lesson learned! I made the rookie mistake of unpacking my new airbrush, filling the bottle with Black acrylic craft paint, start spraying and have nothing happen. First off… I didn't shake the bottle but once, of craft paint. Secondly… I didn't read a friggin then online about thinning with airbrush medium. Found out the hard way. Took me half an hour to get the thing unclogged!!! Only because I'm new at the airbrush, I'm sure it would have taken much less time if I was use to cleaning it.

None the less… lesson learned!

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