Q&A for How to Blend Acrylic Paint

You can try painting the entire surface with a base color and letting it dry completely. After that, start painting thin layers of the next color on top of it. The base layer will show through the top layer of paint to help blend your colors.

In a new spot on your palette, mix a little bit of the darker color into the lighter color. gradually add a bit more of the darker color until you get the right shade.

Just open the bottle and add a little bit of water. Put the lid back on and shake it up really well.

No. Use a high proportion of glazing liquid to produce a very transparent glaze or wash, and/or a very transparent color.

You can make an approximate black by mixing green and red.

One way to not have brush strokes is to use a nice, fine brush. Clumpy bristles make more visible strokes. Another way is to use plenty of water. If the paint is wetter, it blends more evenly. If you use brush strokes in two directions (such as first horizontally, and then diagonally), brush strokes will be much fainter.

Try a palette knife. Place the desired colors on your palette in a way that you can get a bead near the leading edge of the knife as you pull it on your canvas, similar to how many painters create mountains.

You can use any kind of canvas. You probably would want to use thicker, artist quality paper if you're going to do it on paper. You can use regular old copy paper, but in my personal experience the paints got absorbed by the paper very easily and didn't blend properly. But with lots of a patience you can make a painting look nice on copy paper, you would probably only want to paint on this paper if you're just trying to get some practice in.

It is better to use synthetic brushes and not natural brushes, as acrylic paints harm natural brushes.

The same way you do horizontally. Just as shown in the steps above. Use the same brushes and as they recommend and you will be fine.