Acrylic paint- techniques

👨🏾‍🎨 If you like art and want to learn how to paint on canvas with acrylic paint, download this app. You will love it 👩🏾‍🎨

Acrylic paint is a very versatile material when it comes to painting since it can be used on any medium such as canvas, fabric, cardboard, wood, etc ... It is a fast-drying and long-lasting paint. If we dilute it with water, it can imitate watercolor and we can also make the paint more compact to give more body to the canvas or the drawings that we are painting.

Acrylic paint has the advantage that its price is affordable and does not require solvents

BASIC MATERIALS

- Basic acrylic paint colors (white, black, yellow, red and blue) 🎨

- Brushes of different shapes, flat, wide and round brush. 🖌 🖌 🖍

- Palette 🏓

- spatula

- Rag 🥼

- Plastic cup

- Canvas, fabric, cardboard or the surface we want to paint 🖼

We will teach you the techniques to learn to paint step by step, good advice on acrylic painting, what types of brushes to use according to the drawings you are going to paint and we will help you develop your own painting style with the best techniques. You will learn to treat the light on the canvas to give a background to the drawings you paint. The most suitable brushes are synthetic ones, although there are natural brushes that are just as good. It is advisable to have between the brushes a brush for the backgrounds and textures.

🎨 We are going to learn how to create backgrounds on canvas with acrylic paint, some techniques to give texture and light to the painting with the appropriate brushes for each thing.

🎨 One of the tips that we give you for when you finish your work of art, is that you apply a varnish to give the painting more professionalism.

🎨 For beginners there are canvases with printed drawings to help paint and there are even canvas kits, acrylic paint and brushes for the first steps. Give it a little imagination and mold your artwork to your liking.

STYLES

We show you some styles of acrylic paint, which we detail more particularly within the application.

- Realism: style that seeks to recreate reality as faithfully as possible

- Hyperealism: much more real than Realism

- Impressionism: landscape painting style

- Surrealism: they are illogical paintings and difficult to understand

- Abstract art: similar to Surrealism

- Pop art: American folk style

- Expressionism: seeks to reflect the emotion of feelings and the expression of reality.

Take heart and download our Acrylic Paint application to start with your works of art. 🎨 🖌 🖼