thanks! ... on my next day off going to see what brands paint i can find locally .. only ones i remember right off hand was Masters Touch, and Liquitex, and then one that has BASIC in big letters on the tube ... there were more but i rarely looked at the artists acrylics... just noticed it while picking up brushes...
i don't mind spending a little bit more to get a decent acrylic if for nothing else but the base and then go from there .... but not for sure what to get
now that the card has sat for a day or so. it will let me paint over it and not do that ... but is real textury looking ... so looks like a different paint for sure... will keep these just for miniatures ...
never thought of using brown with the color to get a darker shade ... black does darken it up pretty quickly.
okay, here is a photo of the paint along with a clip in the corner of how the paint came off when applying another layer on top of it ... it is on one of the red / white soldier tokens ... was a thin base of red of the same kind of paint. then mixed a little black in it and started to try to darken in the areas that would be dark.
ahhh okay, so i either thinned the paint down to much or used to cheap of a paint then and didnt let it dry enough. was a bit thinner then milk ... and was Hobby Lobby craft acrylic that i used ... and about hmmm 3 to 4 hours of dry time before i tried going back over it.
as an alternate vs erasing? to give the paint something to stick to. just something i am accustomed to doing with gaming mini's to get better adhesion.
going to pick up a good eraser on the way home tonight and give that a try ... otta be fun though cutting the tape out to match what i do not want to remove ...
would spraying a thin coat of a matte or satin clear onto the card help as well? or still better erasing?
will have to try erasing ... have used acetone before but that wouldn't work to well on just the edges i imagine ... i have some blue masking tape that i can use ...
just getting started on trying to alter cards ... and have been trying a few different methods ... using markers (do not like) ... and using acrylics ... (gotta get the hang of it) ... i am accustomed to painting gaming miniatures and figured it would not be that hard of a process to move over to cards ... boy was i wrong ... i am quite sure it is something simple i am overlooking but figured i would ask instead of beating my head against the wall some more...
after putting a thin basecoat onto the card (craft store acrylics watered down) and letting it dry several hours i went to add a different color to start building up the gradient ... and with each brush stroke it would lift off the old paint under it ...
i had not applied any kind of matte spray or primer ... nor had i tried to erase any part of the card... was straight from a pack.
what am i not doing correctly?
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now that the card has sat for a day or so. it will let me paint over it and not do that ... but is real textury looking ... so looks like a different paint for sure... will keep these just for miniatures ...
never thought of using brown with the color to get a darker shade ... black does darken it up pretty quickly.
as an alternate vs erasing? to give the paint something to stick to. just something i am accustomed to doing with gaming mini's to get better adhesion.
would spraying a thin coat of a matte or satin clear onto the card help as well? or still better erasing?
just getting started on trying to alter cards ... and have been trying a few different methods ... using markers (do not like) ... and using acrylics ... (gotta get the hang of it) ... i am accustomed to painting gaming miniatures and figured it would not be that hard of a process to move over to cards ... boy was i wrong ... i am quite sure it is something simple i am overlooking but figured i would ask instead of beating my head against the wall some more...
after putting a thin basecoat onto the card (craft store acrylics watered down) and letting it dry several hours i went to add a different color to start building up the gradient ... and with each brush stroke it would lift off the old paint under it ...
i had not applied any kind of matte spray or primer ... nor had i tried to erase any part of the card... was straight from a pack.
what am i not doing correctly?