Overview
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Learn key concepts and techniques for tackling light and landscapes in acrylic paintings by completing a large, impressionistic studio painting of a skyline in Venice, Italy.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Painting with color and light
- Working with acrylics
- Which brush to use
- Choosing your support
- Additional materials to use
- Brushstrokes and broken edges
- Color ground for our Venetian sunset
- The importance of verticals
- Four tones of the landscape
- Poster study: Value planes
- Challenge: Grouping tones together
- Solution: Revealing the tonal studies
- Shadow-blocking in
- Selecting our color range
- Mixing our base colors
- Using glazing liquid: Blending colors
- Blocking in base colors: Sky
- Blocking in base colors: Water
- First painting: Using a rigger brush
- First painting: Using smaller brushes
- Introducing orange
- Painting the gondola
- Painting water
- Glazing
- Adding details
- Adding texture
- Finishing touches
- Goodbye
