How Do You Paint Soot

Apply two coats of a scrubbable acrylic-latex paint over the primer, using a high-quality brush or roller to eliminate the risk of lap-marks. The scrubbable paint will allow you to easily wipe future soot accumulations off the wall without damaging the finish.

How do you paint a reflection?

Use quick, energetic brushwork with side to side strokes of a thin brush. Drag paint from dark reflected objects quickly into the light areas, clean the brush, then drag the paint from the light areas back into the dark.

Should you paint the background first?

Oftentimes, though, beginning artists paint the subject first and then don’t know what to do with the background. To avoid that problem, paint the background first. … Then as you paint the subject, you can work in a little color from it into the background to help unify the painting if needed.