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Acrylic Tutorial


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Sort Desciption: If I still had a copy of my first acrylic painting Id show it to you so you get an idea what my experience was like. It was awful, simply awful! It was a project where I was supposed to have a bright ...

Content Inside: Acrylic Tutorial Greetings!  This tutorial is going to be a basic step by step on how to paint with acrylic paints.  My experience with this medium is fairly limited, so I will provide you with some useful links in case you want to read up on other material.  The Elfwood Fantasy Art Resource Project (FARP) page has very useful information as well.  You can find the website here: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/ There is a very good acrylic introduction by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law just in case you want to read about brushes and tools.  This can be found here: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/acrylics/introduction.html Its a good read! But if you are already familiar with various brushes and paints, then allow me to get into the actual tutorial in itself.  For this step by step, I will be using my image "The Waterhole". First off I would like to state that Im not going to touch on basic elements of art such as lighting, composition, etc.  Im going to assume you have knowledge of these.  If you do have questions about certain aspects of this tutorial or would like to brush up on your information, you can either email me or check the FARP page.  There is a plethora of information for those just beginning.  Now, on to the tutorial! Colors Used: Luiqatex tube paints *Ultramarine Blue *Dark Green *Titanium White *Cadmium Red (?) *Yellow Ochre *Chromium Oxydie Green *Burnt Sienna *Cadmium Yellow *Sap Green Id like to take the time to say that acrylics can be one of the most difficult mediums to work with.  The pro to it is that Acrylics dry fast, the con to Acrylics is that they dry fast. Unlike oils, you only have a limited time to blend your colors unless you use a medium to extend drying time.  In my experience, I could never mix the ratio to paint to medium well enough and always got a sticky gooey mess.  After a while, I ditched the medium ...



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