What does it mean when craft painting and the instructions say “black w/red floating”? (eg)?
Am painting wooden geckos and the colors say “red w/black floating” or azure blue w/red floating?
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Black with red
Mix black with red to get desired color.
Floating helps you acheive a shaded look. It’s very easy. Here are some directions I found on michaels.com. Instead of using one color as instructed below, you would probably double load with red on one side and black on the other…
FLOAT COLOR – (also known as “floating” or “side-loading”) Wet your brush with water or Extender. Remove most of the water from your brush by touching it on a piece of paper towel. Then touch one edge of the brush against the puddle of paint on your palette and stroke back and forth with your brush until there is a soft gradation of color from the paint on one side of the brush to clear water on the other side.
EDIT:
You might also want to look at the directions for flip floating… if the instructions you are following have a picture, use that as a guide to acheive the proper look…..
FLIP FLOAT — (also called a reverse-float) Apply one “sideload” of color on your surface. Then flip the brush over and lay the paint side of the brush right next to the previously applied paint and paint a second line back to back with the first float.