How to Paint with Acrylic Paint: Sponge Painting
Hi, I'm Linda.
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We have really fun painting workshops in Nashville
and New York.
I'm going to teach you some techniques using
a sponge today.
This is a basic natural sponge.
They come out of the sea.
They're usually bigger when you get them at
the store so you might have to cut them with
some scissors and use the one that you like
the best.
We're going to do two different techniques.
One of them we've already prepared the canvas.
This is a dry red that we've just put on the
canvas and we'll be sponging on top of this
particular color.
I'm going to start out with my sponge.
Put him in the water and squeeze him out so
that he is pliable.
Sometimes these sponges can be very hard so
you want to make sure that they're pliable
and you can work with them.
So squeeze the water out really good and find
the favorite spot which is right there.
I like that spot so that's what I'm going
to use.
I'm going to start with this medium green
color and I'm just going to dab all over this
half of the canvas.
And I'm using quite a lot of paint.
I just keep going back to my pallet, picking
up more painting and pressing it into the
canvas.
The next thing I want to do is take a different
color.
I'd like to put some blue in with this one.
So I'm going to use my blue which is right
here.
So I'm just pressing this blue right into
the wet green paint and I'm just moving around
the canvas trying to fill all the white spots.
You may also want to twist your sponge around
a little bit as you go around the canvas just
because you don't want it to look like a stamped
object that's got the repetitive stamping
on it.
So that is a simple two color sponge technique.
Let's put this little guy aside and I'm going
to grab another one of my little sponges.
Make sure he's wet.
Squeeze him out really good.
Let's just mix a little bit of red with white
so that it's more of a pink tone.
I want it to sort of be a medium pink.
So I'm going to take the sponge that's loaded
up and again we're just going to press it
onto this dry paint.
And I'm going to move around, twisting my
sponge.
You can kind of see that there's different
colors.
There's pink and then there's also a little
bit of white in there that gives it some added
interest.
And that's how we do two sponge techniques
on a background.
