Acrylic Painting Mediums – How to use Soft and Coarse Pumice Gel
About the Artist
I’m Will Kemp, I’m an award-winning professional artist and teacher.
Prior to painting full time I’ve worked in Museums, taught in schools, set up and ran my own gallery for 5 years and have taught hundreds of people to paint and draw.
I’ve studied Classical atelier techniques in Italy alongside conceptual art at the Tate Gallery, London.
Learn how to use Acrylic Gels and Mediums
About the Artist
I’m Will Kemp, I’m an award-winning professional artist and teacher.
Prior to painting full time I’ve worked in Museums, taught in schools, set up and ran my own gallery for 5 years and have taught hundreds of people to paint and draw.
I’ve studied Classical atelier techniques in Italy alongside conceptual art at the Tate Gallery, London.
How to Mix Flesh Tones with Acrylic Paint
The follow video lesson was created by Artist Will Kemp with Will Kemp Art School. In this lesson, Will is going to show you how to mix flesh tones with acrylic paint.
Will is using Golden Heavy Body Acrylics except for the Alizarin Crimson which is Winsor & Newton
Here are the colors used:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Winsor & Newton)
- Burnt Umber
- Ultramarine Blue
Step by Step Acrylic Painting Demo – “Crab Nebula”
About Alizey Khan
My name is Alizey Khan; I am a professional astronomical and abstract painter and printmaker. I was born and raised in the United Kingdom, moved to Pakistan for a few years in middle school, and have lived in America since 2005. I am now based out of Charleston, South Carolina, where I received a degree in Studio Art from the College of Charleston.
The properties of light and spatial depth are the focus of my work, using thinly layered colours to convey a sense of spatial vastness. To this end, I paint astronomical phenomena, which allow for the greatest exploration of light in an incomprehensibly immense space. I strive to visually depict natural processes beyond ordinary human experience to instil in the viewer a sense of curiosity and wonder regarding the universe around us.
I have been interested in astronomy and the wonders of the universe since I was a child. The mysteries of outer space inspire me as an artist because I feel that we as humans get so stupidly caught up in what goes on in our little societies that we forget that we’re just anthills in the scope of the universe. I paint my little galaxies and nebulae and stars to remind myself that there is so much out there we don’t know and haven’t experienced, and we never will unless we collectively start prioritizing the pursuit of knowledge over fighting for resources.
How to Easily Create your own Beautiful Abstract Painting Step by Step
The following video demonstration will teach you how to create your very own abstract painting easily from scratch. The entire painting is completed in one sitting in about 30 minutes. It’s a wet on wet painting meaning wet paint is applied on top of wet paint. This will allow the colors to mix and interact with one another on the canvas to produce the desired effect. The Artist is using acrylic paint as his medium.
The Artist begins by taking some white paint and adding water. He mixes quite a bit of this white as it will form the base of his painting. He then pours it directly on the canvas and spreads it around fairly evenly. By the way, you can use any color you want as your base coat. It does not have to be white. It all depends on the look you are after. White is just this Artists personal choice for this particular painting.
Watercolor Painting Demo – “Spirit Animates Eternal Years”
About the Artist
I began my watercolor journey in 1975. At that that time, I was a Captain in the United States Air Force and working as an instructor pilot and flight examiner at Altus AFB, OK. It was a change from my previous assignment where I was gone from home, about half of the time. At Altus, I trained Air Force pilots to fly the C-141 aircraft—a four engine jet about the size of a medium size airliner. Our time was spent in the local area—flying training sorties out of the airbase, and consequently, I had a lot of time at home. Since I was home more often than not, I got connected to the base art’s center and learned of a watercolor workshop to be held in the spring. I promptly signed up because watercolor was a medium I had always wanted to explore.
Journeys are strange things—they are strange because sometimes you don’t even know you are about to begin a journey, and then one day it dawns you that something has changed in your life. That certainly is true of my watercolor journey. When I signed up for that workshop, I didn’t have the slightest clue about what changes it would weave in my life over the next 37 years.
I took that workshop and fell in love with watercolor. The fluid nature of the medium, the way light played over the paper, and I suppose the exacting nature of painting a credible watercolor all appealed to me. In fact, they reached out and grabbed me, shook me around, played with me, intrigued me, and delighted me, and still haven’t let go almost 40 years later. I’m as crazy about watercolor now as I was when I first saw amazing things happen when I dipped a little pigment into some water spread on paper.
Experimenting with Liquid Acrylic – Acrylic Ink Tutorial
About the Artist – Linda Gunn
Linda’s artwork has an ethereal, fanciful quality that is derivative of her childhood. She was influenced at an early age by her Disney-Artist Grandfather and the works of Norman Rockwell, Andrew Whyeth and other prominent artists and illustrators of the time.
Linda’s connection to England is evident in many of her works, as is her love of animals. She is a highly skilled artist who utilizes the notes, photos and sketches from many sketchbooks and travel journals. She has the unique ability of recalling the fairytale aspect of her childhood memories to add a little magic in her paintings.
Karrie Evenson – How to Paint a Whimsical Cat
KARRIE EVENSON ARTIST
I am a professional artist from Northwest Arkansas living in the hills of the Ozark Mountains. As an emotional painter, it’s important that I try to convey everyday experiences to tell a story with paint, brush and canvas. It is my hope to draw the viewer in and allow them to walk away with a sense of connection to my art. The only way to paint is by being true to my self, emotionally and passionately, this allows me to be free and to let go. As an emotional painter, I find solace when expressing a part of who I am with my art.
I feel like one of my goals in life is to help re-shape the way beginner painters look at art. I find that most beginners end up quitting and giving up too soon in fear of not being perfect. My job is to teach you that nothing is perfect and art never should be. I hope to help you become inspired, as I have been, by just having fun with creating and expressing oneself. Really, isn’t that what art is all about? How did we get away from that?
“Want to learn more about how to be free and loose with your art? Karrie is now offering workshops ONLINE! What’s even better? They are AFFORDABLE!! The workshops start with the basics, easing you into the wonderful process of this carefree painting style and will gradually get more advanced.
There’s no time limit, so you can learn at YOUR OWN PACE.
Acrylic Still Life Painting Step by Step
About the Artist
I’m Will Kemp, I’m an award-winning professional artist and teacher.
Prior to painting full time I’ve worked in Museums, taught in schools, set up and ran my own gallery for 5 years and have taught hundreds of people to paint and draw.
Dick Blick Presents: Golden Fluid Acrylics Review
Golden Fluid Acrylics – Presented by Dick Blick Art Materials
The fluid acrylics line from Golden are a highly intense and permanent paint with the consistency similar to that of heavy cream. The pigment strength used in these paints is very similar to the pigment load that is used to make Golden’s Heavy Body Acrylics. The only real difference is the consistency. These paints are produced using lightfast pigments and not dyes and contain no fillers or extenders.
You may be thinking why bother with fluid acrylics? I can just dilute my regular acrylics with water and produce the same kind of paint. Actually, this is not recommended because your colors will lose intensity when watered down this way.
These paints are manufactured with the highest possible pigment loads. This creates paints that have incredible paint dispersion qualities, amazing tinting strength, durability, flexibility and excellent adhesion. The unique consistency of these paints allows for even brush load and long uniform brush strokes.
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