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6 Classes (9 hours 34 minutes)


  • Materials

    paint

  • Final Product

    4 finished acrylic paintings

  • Level

    Beginner

Acrylic Painting: Learn the Basics For Beginners

Start your painting journey off right by learning how to set up your workspace, gather the proper supplies, mix your first colors, and achieve fundamental optical techniques with your paint.

Back to Basics: Acrylic Painting - Create A Mood With Color

Next, learn to strategically select different color palettes to create different lighting and moods for the same subject. You can use this skill to create more acrylic paintings of any subject matter and in any style.

Acrylic Still Life for Beginners: Modern Still Life Project

Practice makes perfect! Reinforce your beginner skills in color mixing and glazing by creating an impressionistic still life.

Acrylic Landscape: Paint Simple and Loose Using A Limited Color Palette

Now you're ready to expand to a larger scale of subject in a more abstract style. You'll learn how to paint a loose, expressive landscape by block off your reference photo into abstract shapes and evocative colors.

Modern Acrylic Painting: Create an Abstract Spring Floral with Tons of Texture

It's time to play with texture! In this class, you'll focus less on detailed representations of real-world objects and more on techniques to build up paint into playful 3-D forms for decorative painting.

Mesmerizing Metallics: Modern Gold Leafing Techniques with Acrylic Paint

Finally, explore three beginner techniques for adding imitation gold leaf to your acrylic painting arsenal to add flair to your creations.

Congratulations! You’re All Done.

You did it! You’ve completed the full Learning Path. We can’t wait to see where these skills take you next.