How do you lighten an acrylic painting?

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Mix some acrylic paint with a lighter color and medium and glaze over the dark color.
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If you need to lighten your dark brush strokes, simply mix the given colour with white and apply or start by building a layer of white followed by the colour you wanna add.
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You can mix some acrylic paint with a lighter color and medium and glaze over the dark color. White can make it look chalky though. Yellow or bright orange over red can make the red look lighter. Yellow over green will work
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You canmix some acrylic paint with a lighter color and medium and glaze over the dark color. White can make it look chalky though. Yellow or bright orange over red can make the red look lighter. Yellow over green will work read less
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You can mix some acrylic paint with a lighter color and medium and glaze over the dark color. White can make it look chalky though. Yellow or bright orange over red can make the red look lighter. Yellow over green will work
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If you want lighten the acrylic paint, you can dampen the colour mixture with the help of brush and add some light shade of colour. You lower down the tints by adding white to the colour
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