Jenna, you are going to have some great fun experiments with all the paints. 1. You can mix colors until you get a color as close as possible to the metals you like. Adding just a tinge of black can make yellow-orange look like gold; orange-red look like copper; gray look like tin, silver or steel; blue-gray for another steel; and orange-gray for iron. But you will find other variations. Each will look better with a gloss or matte finish. Best wishes! ☺️
Metallic paints are basically a transparent paint base filled with a dry super fine glitter like metallic powder/pigment. You can buy the metallic pigments at art stores. The more pigment you add to the transparent paint the more opaque the finish will be. Regarding your question.... Most acrylic and latex paints are designed to be opaque and cover well, so the metallic pigment would be ineffective or if at best only add some iridescence. You can add metallic pigment to clear acrylics, glaze mediums, acrylic gels and faux painters glaze, epoxy, decoupage medium and most clear coats.
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Jenna, you are going to have some great fun experiments with all the paints. 1. You can mix colors until you get a color as close as possible to the metals you like. Adding just a tinge of black can make yellow-orange look like gold; orange-red look like copper; gray look like tin, silver or steel; blue-gray for another steel; and orange-gray for iron. But you will find other variations. Each will look better with a gloss or matte finish. Best wishes! ☺️
You can buy packets of metallics/pearls to make a metallic paint.... https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=metallic+powder+paint+additive&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ametallic+powder+paint+additive
Metallic paints are basically a transparent paint base filled with a dry super fine glitter like metallic powder/pigment. You can buy the metallic pigments at art stores. The more pigment you add to the transparent paint the more opaque the finish will be. Regarding your question.... Most acrylic and latex paints are designed to be opaque and cover well, so the metallic pigment would be ineffective or if at best only add some iridescence. You can add metallic pigment to clear acrylics, glaze mediums, acrylic gels and faux painters glaze, epoxy, decoupage medium and most clear coats.