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Which type of content would you like to see more of in 2024:

  • Real-time painting videos 34
  • Narrated demos and walkthroughs 42
  • Color-mixing videos and photos of my palettes 15
  • Unfinished paintings and more from behind the scenes 6
  • Other! (Please type your suggestions in the comments ♡ ) 6
  • 2024-02-10
  • 103 votes
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Kittiya Pawlowski

Hi Daria! :) I am wondering if you use a brush for each color, or do you clean brushes before selecting new colors. I would love to see behind the scenes on how you choose brushes before applying paint. Thank you!

Daria Callie

Hi Kittiya, I often wipe my brushes with paper towels or tissues before picking up a new color. Sometimes I can also rinse them in medium. And like you said, I use many brushes and I switch between them in the process; each brush is for a different color group of sorts, for example: one is for some light tones, another brush is for medium neutral tones, another one is for darker shades and so on. This way it’s easier to avoid polluting a new color because it’s very similar to the paint that’s left in the bristles of the brush, hope that makes sense! :)

Christine Milosek

Hi Daria, New member here. Im grateful to learn from your amazing talent and the techniques you share. Do you have a tutorial for how you prime and tone your canvas. Could you include the color mix for the gray toned background you start from, with value grade (1-white----10-black)

Daria Callie

Hi Christine, thank you so much for joining! I usually add some grey acrylic paint to the primer ( I use Winsor & Newton Pale Umber acrylic: https://shorturl.at/cBFL1 ) to make it a nice grey color that’s on a warmer side, and if you prefer you may want to add a tiny bit of black or blue to make it colder in tone. I don’t have specific measurements, I add as much as I feel would be good enough. I like it more on the lighter side but not too light obviously, I’d say 4 or 5 value-wise. Alternatively you can prime the surface with plain white acrylic primer or gesso and then tone it (using burnt umber / raw umber / burnt sienna), it’s also a great and popular practice.