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The Ultimate Acrylic Painting Course

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Overview

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This course has it all! From Your First Brushstroke to Your Ultimate Masterpiece! One course - all aspects of acrylic.

Anyone can master acrylic painting with the right skills! In this all-inclusive acrylic painting course, you will learn to achieve a wide range of painting techniques. Gain confidence to create any painting effect, style and image you desire!

Learn from the nation’s foremost acrylic expert and international best-selling author of acrylic painting books, including Acrylic Revolution. As a bonus gift, Instructor Nancy Reyner includes four pdf books at no additional cost with this course. This is a $95 value if purchased separately.

Nancy's professional and easy-to-follow videos show you all the ways to use acrylic - from traditional painting methods such as glazing, stippling, color mixing and dry brushing, as well as NEW contemporary methods such as flinging, pouring, sanding, layering, and hundreds more painting tips to get successful results.

This course can be used in two ways; a do-it-yourself course AND a reference guide. Follow each video in order like a workshop. Use it again and again as a handy resource guide to quickly access acrylic techniques whenever you need to.

Warning - this course may cause extreme side effects such as creative joy and a genuine painting addiction!

Syllabus

  • Course Preview Trailer
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Acrylic Paint is a Different Animal
  • 3 Paint Viscosities
  • 4 Exploring Acrylic Binders
  • 5 Acrylic is the Inventors Toolbox
  • 6 Classic Style Painting with Acrylic
  • 7 Oil Effects with Acrylic
  • 8 Perfect Color Mixing
  • 9 Surface Appeal
  • 10 Pigment and Paints
  • 11 Amazing Watercolor Effects with Acrylic
  • 12 Truth About Over Watered Acrylics
  • 13 How to Make Acrylic Dry Slower
  • 14 Blending and Soft Edges
  • 15 Transparency and Glazing
  • 16 Layering
  • 17 How to make Acrylic Dry Faster
  • 18 Acrylic Painting Made Easier
  • 19 Pouring Acrylic Part 1
  • 20 Pouring Acrylic Part 2
  • 21 Translucency atmospheric
  • 22 Reflective Paints
  • 23 How to Save Money
  • 24 Mixed Media and Collage
  • 25 Acrylic and Gold Leaf
  • 26 Important Preparation Steps
  • 27 Important Finishing Steps
  • 28 Care and Cleaning of Brushes
  • 29 Pulling it All Together
  • 30 Conclusion

Taught by

Nancy Reyner

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