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Acrylic Painting lessons - Photorealistic Acrylic Paintings

 Intro to Acrylic

  • Creating a ground on your canvas

  • Mapping out a simple drawing

  • Learning how to mix, and thin colours to achieve darker values, mid tones and lighter values

  • Learning how to create shadows and highlights

Learn the following techniques:

Gradient Blending

Wet-on-wet

Wet-on-dry



Intermediate Acrylic

  • Learning about different brushes that can be used for different techniques and textures

  • Transferring photos using the grid method

  • Learning and improving on techniques

Improve the following techniques:

Gradient Blending

Wet-on-wet

Wet-on-dry

OR

Learn two new acrylic painting techniques per lesson out of the following:

Dry brushing

Washing

Dabbing

Sponging

Detailing

 

Advanced Acrylic

Improve on the following techniques:

Dry brushing

Washing

Dabbing

Sponging

Detailing

Learn What These Terms Mean

Dry brushing

Gradient Blending

Washing

Dabbing

Sponging

Detailing 

Wet-on-wet

Wet-on-dry