Acrylic Unleashed - Painting a Colorful Landscape

In this ArtistsNetwork.tv video you can follow along with Julie Gilbert Pollard as she paints a woodland creek in acrylic from start to finish, exploring the versatility of acrylic paint as she uses techniques for effects that resemble the transparency of watercolour and the opacity and richness of oil paint. Along the way learn how to utilize colour harmony, shape making, and how to combine lost and found edges to achieve a loose, painterly quality in your work. Features: Step-by-step instruction to create a loose landscape in acrylic Acrylic lessons on colour, brushwork, values, painting transparent and opaque How to paint water, trees, reflections Quick tips to loosen up including gestural drawing and painting to capture the rhythm of your subject, modified blind contour drawing, colour as value, bold brushwork and more Composition tips including overlap, continuity, balancing objects, focal point and more Landscape painting techniques In this acrylic painting, there will be several points of emphasis: With the versatility that acrylic affords, combine the transparency of watercolour with the opacity and richness of acrylic used similarly to oil Begin with semi-monochromatic under-painting to establish the dark value pattern, similar to a grisaille or bistre Use a palette of colours to create harmony, unity and ease of colour and value mixing Practice squinting to see the large tree and brush shapes and allowing them to merge rather than drawing them separately Combine lost with found edges to maintain a loose, painterly quality Introduction to painting water reflections