Acrylic Painting for Beginners
Easy Acrylic Painting Lessons and Ideas
The core brush techniques one at a time: blending, layering, dry brush, stippling, texture, smooth gradients and clean edges.
7 tutorials published
Three ways to get crisp lines in acrylic: pulling the stroke with a flat or angle brush, sealing and peeling low-tack painter's tape, and cutting back in once dry. Includes a short practice exercise.
A step-by-step gradient exercise: premix five steps on the palette, paint them as bands, then soften the borders with a clean damp brush. Covers one-color and two-color fades and how to fix stripes.
Seven low-cost ways to add texture to an acrylic painting, from thick brush strokes and palette knife work to sponging, scratching, spattering and combing, with notes on gel medium and drying times.
Stippling builds foliage, blossom and speckled texture from dabbed dots. See which brushes work, the dark-to-light method, a three-stage bush exercise and how to keep the pattern from turning mushy.
How to dry brush with acrylics: the brush to use, how much paint to wipe off, a weathered wood practice exercise, and fixes for marks that come out solid or blurry.
Learn the order to paint in: toned ground, background, middle shapes, then details. Includes opaque and transparent layers, drying times and a hill scene built in four layers.
A reliable wet-on-wet method for soft transitions, three ways to slow drying while you work, and how to repair a blend that has already dried into a hard band.
