![]() I used 1/4 tsp of water and added 1/8 tsp (or a dollop) of white paint and mixed it. If your paint is not thin enough, the technique won’t work as well. ![]() Take something round (like a large bowl) and trace your moon shape with a pencil Once the background is dried, you don’t have to worry about drop of alcohol dissolving your background, even if it gets onto it. The first step is to make sure your blue background is fully dried (including stars). These drop shapes will be your moon craters. The alcohol drops will dissolve the white paint on contact, leaving the blue background show beneath it. Note: check out the step-by-step tutorial at the end of this post for the full painting from beginning to endĮssentially, we’re going to paint the moon with a layer of very thin white ( important that it’s thin enough), then add drops of alcohol overtop. Isopropyl alcohol ( I used 50%, but higher concentrations work too) acts as a solvent when it touches acrylic paint and dissolves it on contact. The trick behind the magic is using a common household item that reacts with acrylic paint (or water based paint). Painting this giant blue moon felt like pure magic! Let’s start this magical Christmas painting scene….
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