Great website to look at
Mon, 31 Oct 2011
Great new website to look at-
http://www.explore-acrylic-painting.com/about-us.html
If you are looking for advice on working with acrylics or if you would like some step by step instruction on painting particular subjects, then this is the website for you! Mark Waller gives us tips and tutorials on working with acrylics. The website is called Explore Acrylic Painting, and here is an extract of some of the expert advice offered.
Glazing
Mixing thin glazes tinted with pigment is exciting in many ways. Not only does it allow you to make small adjustments in colour and hue, it can bring life to something that is a little dead. I think better painters have an ability to avoid and recover from mistakes. Glazing is one way to do that. It's fun and is much easier to do with acrylics. Glazing is a must for your acrylic painting techniques repertoire.
Scumbling
Another technique perfect for acrylic paints is scumbling. This involves brushing broken and/or thin layers of paint over another so that some of the paint beneath it shows through. You can remove the thin paint with a cloth, brush, piece of plastic or even a hammer should the mood take you (used when all other ways of pulling up paint the way you need are exhausted). Faster drying times mean the sooner you get to scumble again.
Wet On/In Wet
This method of applying paint obviously refers to working over the surface while the paint beneath (and around) is still wet. This goes hand in hand with impressionism and plein air painting. Can be a little harder to manage because of the faster drying times, although most quality acrylic paint companies have additives that extend the drying time. Atelier Slow Medium is a case in point. Working wet on wet can often "build" some texture in your work.
Watercolor Effects
Generally this is mixing and laying watered down pigment and allowing it to blend, and do its own thing to a certain extent. This acrylic technique can create lovely, luminous effects. Good quality acrylics are OK for this as they have fine and strong pigments. Working with water colours is not something that I know a lot about. It is a style of painting that is a little more "sudden death" than I am happy with. Having said that, we can certainly borrow some ideas.
