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Paint and Draw Outdoors
Reproducing the serenity of a landscape, drawing from life the activity of a market scene, or simply wanting to make the best of natural light … The reasons for working outdoors are numerous. The only thing left to do is to get very organized!
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Acrylic: Working with three-dimensional lines
Adding three-dimensional lines is a totally original technique, consisting of squeezing color onto the painting surface with an applicator tip. However, you need good control because it is not easy to correct mistakes.
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Transparent and opaque techniques with acrylics
What is acrylic paint's greatest virtue? Its exceptional versatility! You can work with an infinite number of textures: opaque and thick like the oil painting, or delicately transparent and close to watercolor results.
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Acrylic: Creating impastos
Impastos, that is, texture effects, help make your material a lot more original! Plus, they are very easy to create
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Acrylic: Painting with fillers
Mix sand in your paint? Why not! This isn't some uninspired artist's hare-brained idea, it's a frequently used technique for creating a coarse, rather spectacular texture.
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Acrylic: Painting with a stencil
Stencils aren't just for kids and interior designers! The technique also can produce results in acrylics that are both fun and surprising.
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Acrylic: Using the masking technique
Whether you need to leave some white spaces, draw irregular edges, or on the contrary, straight ones… Masking is a solution that will make your life easier in a lot of situations!
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Acrylic: Shading with hatching or stippling
Hatching and stippling: these two techniques allow you to create strikingly gradated, very "pro" effects!
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Acrylic: Scumbling
Scumbling is the ideal way to liven up color blocks and add motion. How?
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Acrylic: Port at dawn
An atmosphere-based theme, like a port at dawn, done in a large format, affords the ideal opportunity for you to get used to and play around with the chromatic possibilities of acrylics.
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