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Easy Step by Step Acrylic Paintings
You don’t need to be born with artistic talent to learn to paint with acrylics. And you certainly don’t need years of experience to find the joy in painting.
These easy step-by-step acrylic painting tutorials will provide the process and all you need is:
- a desire to create (which I know you have, otherwise you wouldn’t be here)
- an open mind & heart
- dedicated time to explore your creative potential
Even though you might not know it yet, you have everything you need within you to make beautiful paintings and enjoy the process.
You just need to learn a few basics to get you started.
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On this journey of learning acrylic painting, I will show you different acrylic techniques, tips, and tutorials.
I’ll also help you overcome the fear of a blank canvas by showing you easy step by step painting tutorials that anyone can do.
To start things off I recommend going through my Beginners Guide to Acrylic Painting. It’ll go over the basics of acrylic paints, the supplies you need to get started, and other useful tips. I’ve also put together a quick-reference list of my recommended best painting supplies for beginners here.
If you’re looking for each painting ideas check out this 40+ Easy Painting Ideas post.
Step by Step Acrylic Painting for Beginners
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- How to make beautiful blends and strokes (#1 beginner challenge solved)
- The only 12 paint colors you need
- 5 simple formulas any beginner can use to create gorgeous color palettes
- 3 full step-by-step painting tutorials to get you started (paint and sip friendly)and more…
Step-by-Step Tutorials for Novices
Once you’ve brushed up on the basics and want more challenging tutorials, you can take a look at the tutorials below for novice level painting tutorials.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
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Step-by-Step Tutorials with Advanced Techniques
| Below you can find a collection of more advanced level acrylic painting tutorials. You can also take a look at adding acrylic mediums into your paintings for more advanced techniques. |
Easy Acrylic Paintings Ideas for Beginners
Why you should Not Paint on Raw Fabric?
Canvases are made up of various materials that are color absorbent for the acrylics and oil paints. They get absorbed in the canvas and in time will destroy the canvas with the chemicals mixed in it. There are times when the colors lose their vibrant and the painting may be destroyed. This is the reason you should always prime the canvas. The acrylics are at times okay with being painted on unprimed canvas as well.
How can you make acrylic paint dry faster?
The drying of thick layers of the acrylic paints can be a nightmare at times! However, we have a few tricks that can help you speed up the drying time.
- If you are up for an amateur completion, you can use the fast drying acrylic paint as it dries faster than the normal acrylic paints.
- You can speed up the drying process of the acrylic paints by keeping it in a rather warmer room with low humidity. This will make the water in the acrylic paints dry up faster as it will tend to evaporate faster.
- You can keep the acrylic painting under a lamp. A heat lamp will be fine but a normal yellow bulb can also do that. Don’t keep it too close as it may damage the painting. Keep it enough so that the heat reaches the painting and dries it up faster.
With this, here are Best ColorMixing Techniques you should Know!
65 Simple and Beautiful Acrylic Painting Ideas for Beginners
Summers are here! And as they step into your front door, they bring along a ride of the new and joyful aura of life. It’s time to pick up your favorite activity and start making the most out of it. If you are an adventurous freak, go out of it and explore it to the fullest. However, if you are more of an indoor person who likes to convey their opus on sheets, then painting is one heck a game for you!
Seeing gorgeous artwork of famous painters has you awestruck and inspired! Yet you, being a beginner, don’t know the exact strokes to strike but are enthusiastic about how to do it, then here are some Simple and Beautiful Acrylic Painting Ideas for Beginners that you can try. Learning about easy acrylic painting techniques and recreating them with your creativity will make them unique. Additionally – there are so many uses for acrylic painting! Some like realistic pieces. In many cases, you can explore abstract canvas wall art.
But before you could actually experiment with the acrylics, you need to get things ready, so let’s jump into it!
Beginners Acrylic Painting Course
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What canvas is best for acrylic paint?
There is a variety of canvases that you can have for acrylic painting and it all depends on your budget which canvas you want to get. The most preferable ones are cotton or linen, however, the cotton is much cheaper than linen. Being a beginner, you should prefer for a less costly canvas that is already stretched and primed. However, if you want to get into real artistry business of painting then get an unprimed canvas that you will need to stretch and prime yourself.
OIL CANVAS – The oil canvas is a canvas made is a combination of linseed oil mixed with the zinc white as a primer. Further, this is left to dry for three days after which it is sand and a layer of titanium white is applied to it. It is then kept in the drying room for 10 more days. Since you are a beginner, it is advisable that you buy a ready-made oil canvas rather than doing this process at home.
ABSORBENT CANVAS – This type of canvas is made with rabbit skin on which a compound layer of chalk and glue is applied. The layer is applied twice for the canvas to be ready for acrylic painting.
UNIVERSAL CANVAS – The universal canvas are similar to absorbent canvas. The only difference is that they are layers with two layers of titanium white. These are mostly used canvases and are cheaper as well. Being a beginner, this canvas is a good option for you.
Canvases Based On Fabric
- LINEN – The linen fabric canvas is considered a high-quality canvas as compared to the cotton fabric canvas. This is because the canvas has fine threads that are tightly woven so that it appears smoother comparatively. The linen fabric canvas is costlier than others are and therefore it is costly for a newbie. However, this canvas is best for portrait paintings because of the smoother surface.
- COTTON – Being a newbie, you must go for a cotton-based canvas. However, one must keep in mind that cheaper canvases have a lot of work to put into it. The cheaper the canvas in cotton fabric, the lower the quality of its weaves and threads. Go for a canvas with a medium-range in this type.
- SYNTHETIC – This type of canvas is not quite used because it does not prove to have given better results than the other two. Moreover, it may tend to distort if you stretch it too much. However, you can crosshatch and pencil draw on this type of canvas.
- CANVAS ROLLS and CANVAS PADS are also an option that you can try. However, we do not recommend canvas rolls as you will have to stretch and prime it. Canvas pads, on the other hand, are a better option. These thick sheets of paper come in a book-like form that you can use for painting.
The acrylic paints dry up faster. Therefore, you do not need to worry about its drying depending on the canvas type.
