Step By Step Acrylic Painting Lessons & Techniques
Welcome to the acrylic painting section of CreativeSpotlite.com. We have invested a great deal of time in bringing you the very best in free acrylic painting lessons, demonstrations and techniques. The art instruction on the following pages has been generously donated by professional artists from all over the world. We are most grateful for their generosity and we hope you enjoy! Happy painting! |
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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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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...
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Backlighting Demonstration In Acrylic Paint.
This demonstration illustrates the dramatic effects of backlighting. When the light source in a composition is in front of you, its illumination of forms is known as backlighting. The influence of light on vegetation when viewed from this perspective reminds one of stained glass...
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Abstract Painting Lesson In Acrylic
This painting is on canvas 36x36". I drew the design from shapes I observed in nature and re-arranged to suit myself with soft vine charcoal. Then went over the lines with a diluted ultramarine blue acrylic paint. At this point I don't know where the painting will go or what direction the format will end up...
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Sunset Painting Demonstration In Acrylic Paint
The atmosphere of Mother Earth is made up of gaseous molecules which filters white light. When the sun is overhead, the sky appears blue because the light is filtered, allowing the short wavelengths to be visible; blue and violet. As the sun sets, the short wavelengths become scattered. The sky is then slowly illuminated with longer light waves; yellow, orange and red. This occurs because the light waves have to travel a further distance as the sun sets.
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Acrylic Painting Demonstration - "Water Lily Magic"
The first step (of course) is to have an idea or concept of what to paint. With a concept in mind, several thumbnail sketches are worked out for the composition. It's important to make sketches before beginning a painting. It's much easier to correct mistakes in the sketch rather than in the painting...