Hassle-free acrylic paintings to tackle

This camlin Spray Varnish is a effective Product. I have used this for vanishing Acrylic Canvas Paintings, Rubber cases and Plastic covers. It have a long lasting hold on the product and doesn’t easily fade away. It’s is also helpful for protecting your painting and covers from water and dust.
But the problem is, it is not suitable for big items. For varnishing a large canvas or long and smooth surface, it is not preferable.
Another You have to shake the can for multiple times which is annoying and seems like nothing is coming out of the spray other then gass.
For proper results, you have to apply minimum 3-4 coats of varnish for effective usage which is quite extra.
It have a decent smell. Usually the varnish have strong annoying smell. But this product have sortof lemon smell which is bearable. But use it under well ventilated surrounding or outside.

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Works well for oil and acrylic. But not where you used water or ink

As a spray has fine consistency, I’ve used pours which are thicker ofc. Requires some layers to be topped. If the acrylic is mixed with water or you used ink somewhere in the background (on canvas/paper) it will not work and the gloss is not. Read more

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Good one

Serves the purpose. I used it for acrylic canvas painting. I applied a single coat. Prevents the colors from fading. It has a very pungent and smell. Be careful and cover your hands and face while spraying it.

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Not sure if this should be used my immatures or people who sell their arts.

. look but then it leaves a patchy stain. I tried it on the bottle after using acrylic paint on it. So I had to recoat it with the paint to hide those stains. Or may I don’t know how to spray it Read more

Yes this varnish do gives a glossy look but then it leaves a patchy stain. I tried it on the bottle after using acrylic paint on it.
So I had to recoat it with the paint to hide those stains.
Or may I don’t know how to spray it

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Easy to use spray varnish for art and DIY

Easy to use .. suitable for acrylic and oil painting. Just spray evenly over the work and leave for drying for an hour.

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Value for money.
Good product. Useful for people who do crafts and acrylic paintings
Good product. Useful for people who do crafts and acrylic paintings
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Waste of money

Utter waste of money, I used this product for my terracotta jewellery after some time the entire jewellery turned into white dull colour, I think this varnish has bleaching effect on acrylic paint, please don’t buy this

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Not satisfactory

I used it for acrylic paint on glass. I was not glossy like varnish, it leaves a light white coating over the painting. Will not buy this again.

Why are we drawing more accurately when we want to paint looser?

Well, it depends.

It depends on your skill level of drawing.

If you’re pretty good at drawing, then ideally you’d go straight in with your paintbrush and draw and paint at the same time, so you’re essentially drawing with your brush. That’s how you get the loosest, freshest paintings.

But if you’re a complete beginner, then spending the time getting the drawing accurate is a more failsafe way of creating a painting that looks loose but captures the subject. It gives you the confidence to paint more loosely knowing you’ve got a good structure underneath.

I paint this study with acrylics, but you could also use water-mixable oils.

So grab a brew, a couple of biscuits, and you can download a reference image below to follow along with the video.

How to paint loose with Acrylics – Part 1 – Drawing

The photo below can be downloaded, so you can use it as a reference image, print it out and follow along with the steps below.

Materials you will need:

30 x 30cm canvas or board or you could work on a smaller square

Paints:

I use Artist Quality acrylics but you follow along with any brand.

For the coloured ground:

Raw Umber (Golden Paints)
Ultramarine Blue (Golden Paints)
Titanium White (Golden Paints)

For the painting:

Titanium White (Golden Paints)
Cadmium Yellow Light (Golden Paints)
Ultramarine Blue (Golden Paints)
Burnt Umber (Winsor & Newton)

Brushes:

Isacryl Filbert, 6572, Size 6 (Isabey)
Small round synthetic (any brand is fine)
1 1/2 inch XL Elite Monarch decorators brush (Purdy)

Extra tools

An HB Pencil – (I use a Kuru Toga Roulette Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm Uniball)
An Eraser – (I use a Putty Eraser by Faber Castell)
Burnt Umber chisel nib acrylic marker (Liquitex)
Delacroix Charcoal & Pencil fixative (Sennelier)
Acrylic Glazing Liquid Gloss (Golden Paints)
Palette Knife (I use a diamond shape size 45 by RGM)
Metal dipper or small pot for mediums
Jam Jar for water

I’m using a 30 x 30 cm cotton canvas and I toned my canvas by applying a diluted grey mix that matched the colour of the linen in the reference image.

A coloured ground helps to take away the glare of the white canvas and gives me a head start – if you want to learn more about the benefits of painting on a coloured ground see: How a prepared canvas can drastically improve your paintings

Adding on

Here’s where you get to pile on the paint! Go ahead and play with color within the value masses. As long as the values hang together, the color will work. You can push color by exaggerating what you see or even make it up entirely. Look for nuanced shifts in color temperature. Feel what your painting is hungry for!

Now is the time to look a bit more calmly and carefully at what you are doing. Maybe the initial excitement is starting to wear off and you’re wondering if what you thought minutes ago was pretty good, might not be as great as you thought! So make sure that you’re on the right track. Maybe, take a photo and make sure nothing is glaring back at you. Adjust odd shapes, value and color.

Finish + Critique

Make those final moves. Decide if your painting works as a unified whole. Are there obvious areas or passages that simply don’t look finished? If so, resolve those. Try to sit back and look at your piece with no ego involved. It’s a lot easier to look at someone else’s work and see it’s mistakes. Get to the point you can do this for yourself.

Even a short coffee break will often be revealing. You almost always need fresh eyes on a painting to declare it done.

We don’t make art to hide in our closets, so part of the process is to share it with the world, even if that world is small and protective. Be careful who you share your work with. Even well meaning family and friends can crush our fragile egos when we are new to the painting game. Wait until you’re really ready.

Well, this is my very best advice. There is nothing that has served me more as a painter than being a prolific one!

For lots more information about acrylic painting, consider my latest online workshop Seasons in Acrylic.

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