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Painting Foundations: Acrylic

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Acrylic Painting Courses Still Life Painting Courses Color Palettes Courses Landscape Painting Courses

Course Description

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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