To cover all the techniques available to an acrylic painter in a short article would be next to impossible, but we can cover how to get yourself started, what tools you need, and talk a bit about various methods, styles, and techniques. Of course, the best teacher for any kind of art and any medium of art is practice.
Acrylic paints are one of the newest painting mediums, being introduced as 'recently' as 1955. They have come a long way since then, with an ever-widening range of paints and associated art materials.
Painting with acrylics can be great fun. However, the acrylic paint brushes you use are essential to the quality of your finished painting.
Painting is to be enjoyed, not endured. There'll be plenty of times when a painting will fight you all the way. At times like this you need quality tools that will help you along the way to produce a picture from which you can derive immense satisfaction.
Painting mountains, especially when you want to create depth in a picture, is quite straightforward, with a little guidance.
This video shows you how to very simply paint layer after layer of mountains without the picture becoming muddy or overworked.
As a bonus, it also includes how you produce a simple, but appealing evening sky.
This is the first tutorial in this learn to paint with acrylics mini series.
In this first installment, we begin to paint a habour-side scene. It's a lovely little place called Red Wharf Bay in Anglesey. The tide is out and several boats sit stranded in the habour.