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Welcome to this free, self-paced acrylic video course for all levels designed to grow your arty confidence, develop and refine practical skills and abilities, experiment and play with colour, design and composition.
Use your love of creating to paint a forest after a fire scene in a playful and loose style over 4 video lessons using acrylic paints.
Full, step-by-step instructions are provided alongside the videos including the materials and paint colours you’ll need to follow along.
Or, take your own road and alter, add, remove or change to make it your own. You may want to follow along at first and then paint another that is more reflective of you.
Simply click on each lesson as required. Pause, playback or skip parts at your leisure with no time limits or deadlines or payments. Feel free to go as quickly or slowly as you like while you work with the material and express your radiant creative self.
Learn...
How to plan out your design
Composition and design basics using a square canvas
Getting the most from a limited colour palette
How to blend lighter colours into a back ground
Easy ways to paint trees and lines
Using a palette knife to give atmosphere to your work
Value differences that give depth to your artwork
How to fix compositional elements that don’t work
Knowing when your finished
Materials Required
1 square canvas (14x14 inches or bigger works well)
Acrylic paint : raw sienna, thin coat applied as an undercoat colour. (check with video)
Pastel pencils for early design work
Heavy bodied or textured acrylic paints in colours: unbleached titanium, burnt umber, primary red, titanium white and phthalo blue
Soft acrylic brushes 1 inch for blending background paints
Soft acrylic brushes small – medium flat and round for brushed on trees and details
Palette knife selection – small to medium to add highlights and texture
Flat palette for your colours (easier to work with the palette knife)
Water to wash brushes
Paper or kitchen towel for drying brushes in between colour changes or as needed.
People have shared how much they loved the simplicity and incredible detail in each step, explained in plain English that is easy to understanding regardless of art level.
Simply click on each lesson as required. Pause, playback or skip parts at your leisure with no time limits or deadlines or payments. Feel free to go as quickly or slowly as you like while you work with the material and engage your radiant creative self.
Jump straight in and enjoy!
Lesson 1
Learn to Paint a Forest in Acrylics Part 1
Lesson 2
Learn to Paint a Forest in Acrylics Part 2
Lesson 3
Learn to Paint a Forest in Acrylics Part 3
Lesson 4
Learn to Paint a Forest in Acrylics Part 4
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