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Painting Wildlife: Acrylic & Mixed Media

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Overview

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Description Paint vivid, lifelike animals as award-winning artist Sharlena Wood guides you through a variety of accessible acrylic, charcoal, and pastel techniques. Discover how to render accurate proportions, build dimensional form, and convey drama as you create your own unique wildlife images. Learn to depict distinctive fur and feather textures using wet and dry media, and enhance your work with luminous highlights. Integrate textural medium with delicate acrylic washes for captivating contrast, and bring expressive energy to your creations with Sharlena’s tips for painting realistic animal eyes and features. Bring the power and excitement of wildlife to your easel with essential mixed media skills!

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Mixed Media Painting & Drawing
  • Reference, Composition & Texture
  • Layers of Fur
  • Expression With Interference Colors
  • Fearless Acrylic Ground
  • The Illusion of Realism
  • Feathers & Finishing

Taught by

Sharlena Wood

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