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Painting Foundations: Acrylic

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Overview

Learn to paint with acrylics. Get an introduction to the materials and techniques used in acrylic painting with three follow-along painting projects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Materials and Setup
  • The versatility of acrylics
  • Which brush to choose?
  • Palette choice
  • Canvas, paper, or board?
  • Preparing your support
  • Using a colored ground
  • Additional materials
2. Paint Properties
  • Heavy body vs. fluid body
  • Altering paint with water and mediums
  • Opacity vs. transparency
3. Basic Painting Techniques
  • Blocking in and underpainting
  • Three-tone masses
  • Introducing color
  • Adding glazes
4. The Power of Pigments
  • Earth colors vs. synthetic colors
  • Color bias
  • Choosing a white
5. A Simple Five-Color Palette
  • 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
6. Creative Mark Making and the Unique Properties of Acrylic Paints
  • Creating texture
  • Abstract techniques: Drips and pours
7. Final Project: Still Life
  • 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

Taught by

Will Kemp

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