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Before starting, have several containers to hold various colors and several for clean fresh water.
I use small, disposable plastic containers I get from the paint department at my local home builders
store. I also get tubes of paint tint from the same department. For these two examples, I used: black, gray, burnt umber (a dark brown) and yellow ochre (kind of a golden yellow). I also used a whole lot of exterior grade pastel base... which takes tinting very well. The "pastel" term is a little misleading, in that, the paint is actually solid white. All paints and tints I use are water based... you may want to check that out before beginning. There's no problem if you want to use oil-based paints and tints, but you'll also need to have the thinning agents and cleaners readily available. Water-based paint is just easier to deal with. The application tools are just as simple. A (cheap) 2" paint brush, sponges and paper towels. That's it. The sponges, I tear into small chunks... about 2"x2"x2" in size, or thereabouts. One last item I have that I consider to be practically indepensible (I don't know how I'd do without it) is a small Lazy-Susan type turntable. You may think you can do without one... and you might be able to... but it makes the job go so much quicker and easier. I set the object to paint on the turntable, rotating the work as necessary, keeping the area I'm working on always directly in front of me. No reaching... no straining. This one little item makes painting props actually enjoyable. I suggest looking around and buying a cheap one at a household goods store or secondhand store. They're great little tools for the hobbyist. Enough of that. Let's move on. |
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