Top 15 Acrylic Painting Starters

Chris Cozen | Runtime (103 min)

Kickstart your art with these acrylic painting techniques for creating inspired first layers. You’ll learn paint applications that create bold texture, build strong foundations with black gesso and red underpaintings, inscribe into your wet paint, and create patterns, collages and more in easy-to-learn demonstrations from renowned Golden working artist and instructor Chris Cozen. She shows how the foundation of the painting can guide the next steps so you’ll never be stuck trying to figure out where to go next. With easy, versatile acrylic products, you’ll be building strong foundations and fabulous first layers.

Features: 

• Learn how to use your paints, from varying thickness and viscosity, to combining and mixing them into one work
• Working on different types of gesso and surfaces
• Building a strong composition for your paintings
• How you can use textural products, such as molding pastes and gels; stencils, stamps and bubble wrap, and more
• Using collage and mixed media as a surface background
• How to create a strong underpainting
• Brushstrokes and watermedia painting techniques, such as wet-into-wet and wet-on-dry
• Working with metallic paints
• Subtractive methods, layering and blending techniques

Preview Top 15 Acrylic Painting Starters now to learn how to play with paint applications, dropping one color into the wet paint of another; and layer colors to create a strong foundation. Then, discover how to subtract paint and product to begin a landscape. Finally, start your painting with a collage to create a strong texture.