The Acrylic Painting Academy
$50.00
About this Course
“The Acrylic Painting Academy” is a comprehensive painting course designed to guide absolute beginners to a level of producing professional quality acrylic paintings through concise and “easy to digest” modules that include videos and Ebooks. Designed for beginners, this course lays the foundation required for success with acrylics and painting in general.
What You’ll Learn:
- The basic materials, tools, and surfaces for painting with acrylics.
- How to mix and apply values of a color to create the illusion of light and form within a scene.
- How to stretch and prepare your own canvas for painting.
- Learn the process of transferring images to a canvas and painting directly (Alla Prima) by mixing colors as they are observed.
- How to apply layers of color applications to finish a painting that accurately communicates the subject through direct painting.
- The basics of color theory and how to mix colors accurately.
- How to apply color theory in your paintings to create harmonious works.
- How to use acrylic fluid and gel mediums to enhance the versatility of the medium.
- How to develop a painting completely made up of neutral values (Grisaille) to establish the tonal range.
- How to create and apply translucent glazes of color over an underpainting to develop the colors within a scene.
- How to apply thick Impasto applications of color with painting knives.
- Strategies for creating successful abstract and non-objective acrylic paintings.