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How can I paint something to make it look metallic/shiny (using acrylic paints)?
My painting includes a knife and other silver, metal objects - I am trying to make it look more realistic, so more metallic-looking and more shiny... how can I do this without actually using metallic paints? (I am using acrylic paints).
Thanks in advance
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I would agree that using a combination of dark and light grays plus white highlights would do the trick. Using iridescent paints as highlights is never really a bad thing, though, and you could also try adding shimmer powder to the white to make it pop more. I've tried this myself and it worked well.
- 1 decade ago
you could try using metalic acrylic paint's .The grey with white highlights
sounds good, lots of thin layers works for me,using the metalics plus highlights till it looks right
Source(s): Basicaly it's trial and error,until you are ok with the result!
