Looking good.
Nice to see that you're doing a WIP. I shall watch with interest.
Not sure why you're unhappy with the colour, but a good neutral under-paint is raw umber.

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I'm soooooo gonna this when it's done!!

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Very good - let me know when you are finished and I will come and have another look.

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I'm more unhappy with the color that I've got on, not the underpainting. I don't really know how the heck to work these colors so they blend more than overlap (if that makes any sense at all) so it's making the going not so fun. That's why I like oils, at least you can blend till your fingers mold to the paintbrush, that stuff doesn't dry in the time it takes for you to dip your brush in water.

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<sub>Don't forget who's taking you home, and in whose arms you're gonna be,
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Haha, thanks for that

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<sub>Don't forget who's taking you home, and in whose arms you're gonna be,
So darling, save the last dance for me. ♫
- M. Bublé</sub>

Sounds good, I'll let you know

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<sub>Don't forget who's taking you home, and in whose arms you're gonna be,
So darling, save the last dance for me. ♫
- M. Bublé</sub>

I told you they would piss you off. That's the down side. I tend to use them more, if I think the piece needs lots of washes. I've never tried doing a wash in oils. I would imagine that you do 5mins work and then wait a couple of days, not good. Especially if you need several in a row. That's why I've never tried it.
You can get retarding gels to mix with it, that slow it down a bit. One thing that gets me, is if you leave your brush in water, it still bloody well dries. And you don't half go through brushes quick with it. My brushes for oil, I got a cheap set of 12 hogs hairs for £1. I have had them for ages and they still look the same. I tried a good name, Windsor and Newton brush, it was rubbish, way too short and it just pushed the paint around like a wooden stump would.
I think that is how you do it with acrylics. You keep painting lots of washes over each other and eventually it looks blended. I personally used to do the edges really quick, before it dried. It didn't really work too well.

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It's a dream inside a dream, but i will understand when I'm dead

That looks great! I can't wait to see the finished piece!

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Windsor and Newton huh? That's the acrylic brand that I just managed to explode all over my floor. My lemon yellow has suffered a fatal blow, I don't know if it'll make it. Who the hell thinks of all these names anyway? Isn't yellow just yellow?

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<sub>Don't forget who's taking you home, and in whose arms you're gonna be,
So darling, save the last dance for me. ♫
- M. Bublé</sub>