How to paint an Impressionistic Seascape with Acrylics
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.
Step by Step Landscape Painting Lesson
About Christopher Vasil
I’m a Delaware based impressionist working in acrylics. I try to make paintings that look precise and at the same time spontaneous. My work has been described as having a “…powerful, primitive, brushstroke laid down in a way that brings gentleness…work [that] can appear powerful and yet gentle at the same time. It is both exciting and relaxing.” Lately I’m experimenting more with concept art, combining representation with abstraction as a means to explore ideas about form and dimension.
Christopher’s Website: www.christophervasil.com
Karrie on Canvas: Acrylic Painting Demo – “Have Fun with Cats!”
Below is another full episode of the show “Karrie on Canvas” starring artist Karrie Evenson. I am a big fan of this show. I love Karries carefree and colorful approach to painting. Sometimes it is nice to just let go and paint something without much thought or careful planning, especially after a hard day. It is extremely relaxing and therapeutic.
In this episode, Karrie will demonstrate how she paints one of her abstract paintings, specifically of a cat.
Here is what you will need to complete your painting:
- Medium Size Canvas
- Medium to Large Paint Brushes
- Assorted Acrylic Paint
- Paper Towels or Rags
- Water for Cleaning Brushes
The Monet guide to Colour harmony
by Will Kemp with Will Kemp Art School
Let’s be honest, colour mixing can be frustrating.
You’ve mastered the colour wheel, you understand complementary colours and may have either dabbled with a few different colour schemes but why do you paintings still not work?
Why don’t they balance and create harmony to your eye?
What are you doing wrong?
In this series of guest posts for ArtInstructionBlog.com, I want to address some of the common stumbling blocks of colour and analyze some master pieces to try and see how past masters have managed to balance seemingly impossible colour mixtures – so you can help to find your own unique palette
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In Calm Waters – Acrylic Painting Lesson
About Brian Rice:
Brian was born on May 25,1958 and his roots are in the small outport of Pilleys Island, Newfoundland, Canada. At the age of nineteen he moved to central Canada in the Sarnia, Ontario area, where he now works in the Petrochemical industry.
His interest in art began in high school, when an art teacher encouraged him. In 1979 he began to paint realistic images of Newfoundland and northern wildlife, using an acrylic medium. He has many admirers of his work and most of the paintings have been sold; many were commissions. In 1998 he did a painting of an old united church (circa 1945) for his hometown heritage society. Prints were made and sold as a fund raiser.
In 1997 he entered an art contest in Sarnia. This contest was held to select a winner to commemorate the new blue water bridge. The painting got an honourable mention and it was reproduced as a limited edition print.
Acrylic Layering Techniques Painting Demonstration
About Sandrine Pelissier
I grew up in France but have been living in Canada for the last 12 years, I am currently located in North Vancouver and work from a studio on Pemberton Avenue.
Watercolor is my medium of choice because of the unique way it allows me to render light. The transparency of this medium can make it look like the painting is lit from behind and the light is shining through the paper In my portraits, I like to tell stories about the people around me. I am very interested in childhood fantasy or fairy tales (I wish it would snow Flowers, Hair Balloon, Georgia, the Spanish dress and the Eclectus Parrot). I also like to induce a dialogue with the viewer in some paintings dealing more with introspection and mood (Mixed, In the studio).
Those portraits are not about likeness or knowing the people that are being painted, as I see my models as actors in a movie, they are the faces that will allow me to tell a story or to show emotions. Those faces are a source of endless fascination and I find the subtlety that can be achieved with watercolor well suited to the complexity of the human face.
My technique involves the accumulation of many transparent layers of watercolor. Then I like to incorporate mixed media in the background, work sometimes with some contouring. I also sometimes like to add some drawing on top of the painting or some graphic elements…
How to Mix Bright Pink with Acrylic Paint
Learn how to mix a bright pink using acrylic paint with this free acrylic painting tutorial from award winning Artist and teacher Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School. This is the second video lesson that I have featured here from Will as I simply love his teaching style. Check out his other lesson on my site on mixing greens with acrylic paint here.
For this particular lesson, Will is using the following acrylic colors from Golden &
Winsor & Newton: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson Hue, Alizarin Crimson Permanent, Quinacridone Red and Titanium White.
In order to mix a true pink, you need red and white, but as this video will demonstrate, not all reds on your palette will make a nice bright pink and you really won’t be able to tell when looking at a color straight out of the tube. You need to add white to a color to determine the best red for the job.
Painting with Acrylic Paint: How to Mix Greens with Will Kemp
Here is a wonderful video created by Artist and Instructor Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School. In this video, he will teach you how to create a variety of beautiful greens using acrylic paints.
If you spend any time outdoors observing nature, then you must already know the variety of greens that are there. There are warm yellow greens, cool blue greens, bright greens and dull greens. So you may find it rather challenging when it comes time to mix your own greens out of acrylic paint. There are some beautiful tubed greens on the market, but to really match the vast amount of greens that appear in nature, you must learn how to mix your own.
By the way, this video will work just as well with Oil Paints. While we are on the topic , you may want to also check out another post I put together a while back on mixing greens here. You may also want to check out a fantastic DVD created by my good friend Richard Robinson called Mastering Color. Back to the lesson at hand.
For this particular demonstration, Will is using Golden Heavy Body Acrylics, which are fantastic paints. If you haven’t tried them out yet, you can buy them online here at a great price.
How to Paint Silver with Acrylic Paint
Here is a superb video tutorial taught by Artist Paul Taggart that will demonstrate how to paint the metal silver using acrylic paint. If you paint in oils, you will still be able to follow this tutorial as the same techniques will work with oil painting. This video demonstration is part of a series on how to paint metals.
Painting objects made of silver can be a very difficult undertaking for beginners, especially since silver is a reflective material, similar to a mirror. The color of silver can vary depending on the objects that are nearby. The colors can also vary depending on how shiny or tarnished the silver is. So there are certain factors to take into consideration.
The following tutorial is only one artists approach to painting silver, but I believe it is one of the best I have seen, which is why I am posting it here. Paul breaks everything down in this demonstration making it very easy to understand and follow along. This video is approximately 1 hour in length, so please be sure to set aside some time to watch the entire lesson. I hope you enjoy!
How to Paint a Flower with Acrylics Step by Step
About Cyd Rust
Growing up in a family of painters, it was not surprising that I was only nine years old when my Grandmother entered me in my first juried show. Life as a child was a joyful blend of unrestricted creativity and unconditional love. Art overflowed the small house my grandparents lived in. Artists constantly came and went, and every medium imaginable was held within its walls at some time.
In 1994 I moved to Loveland Colorado where I immersed myself in classes at The Loveland Academy of Fine Arts, taking thousands of hours of study from some of the top artists in the world.
I found my niche in sculpture, and it wasn’t long before my work was held in numerous private collections, and I had been accepted into juried shows across the United States, including showings at the Palm Springs Desert Museum and the prestigious North American Sculpture Exhibition.
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