TUTORIAL - Acrylic Painting Tips

#21

Great tips here. Thanks a lot.

I’m using mostly liquitex and winsor & newton acrylics, mostly in tubes. I have to give the bottles a try to check the consistency.

I really apreciated the tip of using greys to lower the cromatic intensity, normally I use black for that, but only a small portion of black makes evrything very dark. One thing i do sometimes is to use a very dilluted layer of white or black above what I have painted before. I do like the effect but I don’t think it works always. So I’ll give it a try with the greys (seems very obvious but I never though about that!!!).

I hope there are more tips from more experienced users! is there a thread like this for oils (off I go, to look for it…)

Cheers
Fil

#22

Hi Fil,

Welcome to the Anatomy Forum! :slight_smile: We don’t have as many traditional as digital resources here since this is primarily a CG board, but I’d like for us to have more in the way of traditional resources as well. :slight_smile:

In the meantime, try checking www.wetcanvas.com, and feel free to post your work here to your own Anatomy Thread or to the WIP 2D Section of CGTalk. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#23

There’s no shortage of places out there for oil painting info, so I doubt I could add anything more helpful than you can already find rather easily. Maybe I’ll start one that’s pretty basic and see where it goes. Oddly enough, it seems harder to find good acrylic forums. I guess folks think it’s so easy it should paint itself. :stuck_out_tongue:

I hope that tip of using greys is useful to you voraz. You may find you only need a couple.

#24

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