Brushing Techniques with Poster Colors

#1

Hi all,

I’m having problem to control the evenness of my tone. See, I’m trying to color, lets say a 10x10cm square, I’d tried a few times, but I can’t seem to get the tone perfect.

I’d tried different stroke, say circular, horizontal/vertical, diagonal and when it dries, it always leaves the stroke mark, in another words, uneven.

There’s a few factor I could think of that affect the neatness, but still not knowing to control them:
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[li]Concentration of the poster color[/li][li]Stroke[/li][li]Brush size (No flat brush)[/li][/ul]I know there’s a lot of expert here, so please help me? Oh by the way, I used size 6 round brush. I will appreciate your comment in any way.

#2

Can you give more detail about what you’re using poster colors for, and what surface you’re painting on?

#3

At last, a reply. Nonetheless, I’m using poster color because it’s a cheap medium and it is so basic yet, I couldn’t handle it right. Just for your information, I’m just painting in on an art block.

I don’t have any problem painting small and thin area, but then, I couldn’t do something big. The tone just looks unbalance. It is just so hard to paint the edges and then the middle part because you exert different pressure to it or at least if that what I should practice on or is there another way around?

Thanks for asking.

#4

You should never pick a medium simply because it’s cheap. You have to match the medium to what you’re trying to achieve. If you want to do paintings in the conventional sense of what we think of as paintings, then use a more appropriate medium (watercolor, acrylics, oils…etc). Poster colors are typically used to make big banners or signs, where you just lay down large areas of flat colors with not much gradation. When used to paint more elaborate work, people usually use it to paint separate flat values as opposed to fine renderings like you’d do with oils.

#5

Exactly, and which is why I can’t do that. I couldn’t make a flat tone, well, perfect and balance tone.

It’s just for my practice, that’s why I’m choosing poster color, studying the stroke and various experimentation. I know painting medium should not be judged by its value, that makes very sense to everyone here but still, you can’t get away from the basics of brush control and color mixing which is why I’m still working on that.

#6

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