Overview
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Learn to paint with acrylics. Get an introduction to the materials and techniques used in acrylic painting with three follow-along painting projects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- The versatility of acrylics
- Which brush to choose?
- Palette choice
- Canvas, paper, or board?
- Preparing your support
- Using a colored ground
- Additional materials
- Heavy body vs. fluid body
- Altering paint with water and mediums
- Opacity vs. transparency
- Blocking in and underpainting
- Three-tone masses
- Introducing color
- Adding glazes
- Earth colors vs. synthetic colors
- Color bias
- Choosing a white
- Five key colors
- Color matching
- Choosing a mood for a landscape
- Mixing color strings
- Landscape techniques: Painting clouds using color strings
- Landscape techniques: Adding color to the landscape
- Creating texture
- Abstract techniques: Drips and pours
- Final project: Preparing our colors
- Final project: First stages
- Final Project: Washes and blocking in
- Final project: Impasto and thick passages of paint
- Signing and protecting your work
