Place an object in front of your camera, grab your lights and go for it! Anything will do: A vase, a toy car or character. Try different ways… Not showing your light source to the camera, or showing that and leaving the trail. Experiments often bring pleasant surprises!
40 Easy Acrylic Painting Ideas for Beginners to Try
I believe there might be only a few people who don’t enjoy the idea of painting, it’s always a joy to turn some color strokes into a piece of art. But the trouble is that not everyone is that good with colors and brushes that they can make people turn their eyes and talk about it as some of the fine artists can do. So for the amateurs who love to paint, acrylic painting is good, to begin with. Here are some extremely easy acrylic painting ideas for beginners that would definitely enhance the artist in you.
If you try to go into the depths and explore the art of acrylic paintings, you’ll find an ocean of styles, techniques, strokes, brushes, and colors. So before starting off with your paintings let us learn about some techniques and strokes used in acrylic painting. A few of them are listed below.
What Are The Acrylic Painting Techniques Used?
Following are some strokes used in acrylic painting.
- Dabbing
- Double Load
- Drybrush
- Palette Knife
- Splattering
- Stippling
- Triple Load
- Washing
What Are The Types of Strokes Used?
Following are some strokes used in acrylic painting. And it’s quite necessary for the novice painter to know such strokes before knowing more about easy acrylic painting ideas for beginners.
- Diagonal strokes
- Horizontal strokes
- Vertical strokes
- X-strokes
Here are the set of easy acrylic painting ideas that will surely help you to move step by step towards becoming a pro artist.
11 Easy Light Painting Ideas to try
- Spin some Steelwool
- Write your message to the world
- Draw something
- Light paint an object
- Use your zoom
- Do an Orb
- Take a light painting portrait
- Do a double exposure
- Reflections
- Macro
- Recreate an epic fight scene from a movie/comic
ok.. let’s break this down a bit.
Spin some Steelwool
I think that’s maybe the most common way to start light painting. This is how I started at least. It’s easy, gives impressive results and most of all – its FUN!
All you need is some steel wool (the thinner, the better) some way to hold it, and some string or piece of rope to spin it. Check this simple tutorial by Alex’s Photo and Video
Ps: As fun as it is, it’s also playing with hot melted metal.. so make sure you take some caution when you do that!
Here is one of my fist steel wool attempts. Nothing fancy but I remember the chills it gave me!
Write your message to the world
All you need is any sort of flashlight and something to say! From hello to your friend to whatever you might want to express, it’s a nice way to say it!
A couple of tips: The camera is facing you, so whatever you write will appear reversed in the camera. This is something that can be learned with practice, but there is also a couple of alternatives.
Easy way: Mirror the image afterward in any editing program. But since light painters ethics says NO PHOTOSHOP ( this is a subject we will cover in the future.. ) there is another way.
It depends on a bit of the light source you have but can be achieved with most with a bit of practice. You just turn your back to the camera and hold the light towards the camera. This way you can write in the usual way, which is much easier. All you need to figure out is how to switch off and on the light in between letters etc.
