tricks for painting white over color??????

Does anyone have any tricks for painting white over color? For example, painting teeth on spongebob, or eyes on snakes. You can't always leave a space for those things, especially if they're small. The white ALWAYS pulls in the color.
Or are there any brands of white that work well over color?

as long as the other colors are completely dry you shouldn't have a problem

well, for me, it seems that even if it's dry (especially dark colors) when I use the white, the brush is wet with paint and it re-wets the paint underneath and pulls in color.

Yeah I get that too, although less so with DFX, it definitely sits on top of over colours better than Snaz... However, even DFX white over top of certain colours, will sort of "fade" after a few seconds so it is not a bright white. It bugs me, sometimes I reapply the white and it looks good then.

Yeah, what they said... dry base, DFX/Wolfe/TAG white. And sometimes it takes a second coat.

Also search for Metina's dippy pot... the post/recipe is around here somewhere...

Sometimes I take a baby wipe over my finger or a wet Qtip and take off some color before I paint on the white (like with Spongebob teeth)

always happens to me to, I just second or triple coat it.

Well that makes me feel better, I've been having to double/triple coat too. Just wanted to see if there was a trick I didn't know about!!

The dippy pot method really helps with this. I still do get some bleed through if I'm painting fast & don't have time for the base to dry. It's worse when I'm doing flatbrush work, since I need more water to activate the paint. But my base is pretty dry when I sponge(my trick, spray the sponge, not the paints).

You have to let the paint dry and your brush with the white paint can't be that wet. now for those brands of paint that you need more water to activate the paint, well then i guess you will have to go over it again and again. DFX doesn't need alot of water therefore can go over other dry colors with very little to no bleed. I rarely have to go over my white again.

On a side note I just saw the post about the dippy pot....lolol just cracks me up..........even though I don'tcurrently have an issue with my white I am gonna try it and see.

I found it and bumped it up with a post.

here is a quick butterfly I did last night to post for this



and here's something I did previously




ironically the same split cake just reversed order of colors.....I did not do the dippy pot this is just plain ole DFX white and a brush

found one more to show...this is DFX white over metallic rainbow split

Wow Changing i love the bottom one. Beautifully done!

Thank you Ashley, appreciate the kindness

Wow Changing, love your designs! Good to see the different effect with the same cake.