Acrylic Painting Sponge Dabbing Painting

Arcyrlic painting with sponge technique.

Acrylic painting sponge dabbing painting. This in an easy acrylic painting of a cherry blossom tree. You dont even have to put up with smelly messy oil based paint. Without cleaning your brush add a dab of white onto it and paint this color below the purple until midway on the canvas it will be a lighter purple without cleaning your brush off add some pink onto your brush. The simple sunlit background was painted with a sponge.

Dabbing paint using a sponge will create textural effects that cant be achieved by a brush. But you can use any pink you have laying around. Hobby lobby michaels etc. Canvas any size 12 tape acrylic paintpaint brushes use as many colors as you want sponges bowl of water all material can be found at any craft store.

New mini galaxy painting. This was one of my summer paintings that i finally edited. Working in layers sponging will subtly blend together colors and bring depth to the canvas. Dabbing can be done in multiple layers to build depth.

This is an easy sponge painting of a galaxy painted with acrylic paints. This is an easy sponge painting of a galaxy painted with acrylic paints. The pink i used in this painting is a 7030 mix of medium magenta to fluorescent pink. The texture of the sponge gives a nice irregular pattern that closely resembles foliage.

And unlike other painting techniques sponge painting is forgiving.