Step By Step Acrylic Painting Lessons & Techniques
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So many times I have heard people comment on the fact that they could always spot an oil painting because of the vibrancy of colours. These are comments as they are standing and looking at my paintings. When I tell them that these are painted in acrylics, they stand in awe. If there is no vibrancy in the colours, it is because the artist has done it that way. In my opinion, as long as they have not been muddied by over-mixing, the acrylic paint out of the tube has the same potential of striking colour as oil paint.
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The picture I am using for a reference was one I took on a beautiful sunny day after a white blanket had covered our world and made it into a Winter Wonderland. Even though it was still cold, the sun had enough strength to start melting the snow on the branches of the spruce trees. As the water fell off the twigs, it froze into solid icicles which glinted in the sun; then the sun split the light into colours of the rainbow when you looked directly into the sun through the icicles...
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This tutorial is an instructive walkthrough of how I created "Alien Landscape" including details about paints, brushes, palettes and acrylic painting techniques. The painting was created with Atelier acrylics on a 20"x30" gallery-wrapped canvas. There’s a few images here so you may need to give them a minute to load.
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Excerpts from a new 125 page, full color ebook (pdf) acrylic painting course by artist Brian Simons.
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Taking a Bow - Acrylic Paint Demonstration
"Taking a Bow" Acrylic On Masonite
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Jim Pescott's Dottalism Process
Jim Pescott's Dottalism Process
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Mystic Past
The landscape painting is a 14.75" X 46" panorama. It will be an early morning landscape setting with an old stone foundation as the focal point. There will also be a whitetail buck wandering through the scene. I'm using acrylic paints on gessoed hardboard (masonite)...
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Stanley Acrylic Painting Lesson
I would like to share my technique for painting a pet portrait, from a poor photograph, In this article, I will be painting brown fur, in acrylic paints. The method is painting in layers; many many layers. I am not fortunate enough to have large groups of time, to paint, so the painting really had time to dry, in between layers and took approximately 3 weeks to paint...