Learn How To Paint With Acrylics: Projects For Beginners
What you'll learn
- Have fun painting as you learn acrylic painting techniques
- Work step by step along with an experienced painting teacher, with encouragement to embrace your own style.
- How to mix acrylic paint colours including secondary colours, black, tints and shades.
- Practice a variety of painting techniques, including blending, layering, and texturing, to create different effects and styles.
- Develop an understanding of color theory including warm and cool colors and complimentary colors
- Paint a range of different subjects including plants, landscapes and still life
- Learn through practice, not just theory
- How to blend colors together for a smooth effect
- How to use textured brushstrokes and textured color
- How to paint the illusion of 3D form
- Complete five manageable painting projects - 1-2 hours long each
- Gain confidence in your own painting style
- How to use acrylic painting medium
- How to prime paper for painting on
Requirements
- No previous experience necessary, suitable for beginners or people getting back into art who want some guidance and inspiration
- Basic range of acrylic primary colors and a few earth tones are used in this course. Flat and round brushes. Paper or board. But really, you can use whatever paints and brushes you have available!
Description
If you are a beginner who wants learn how to paint with acrylics or if you want to pick up a paintbrush again, this course will have you painting in no time!
This collection of acrylic painting projects is designed to teach you the key skills of acrylic painting as you practice.
Each painting is 1-2 hours and focuses on a different technique or skill including:
Project 1: How to mix color, tints and shades
Project 2: How to blend two colors together in a smooth gradient
Project 3: How to use textured brush strokes to create pattern and energy in your painting
Project 4: How to paint 3D objects
Project 5: Focus on form with monochromatic painting (one colour)
Each project begins with some simple color mixing and testing before completing a small painting. You'll produce five finished paintings! As we paint together I'll show you what to do at each stage and give you acrylic painting tips along the way.
The aim of this series is to give you something to paint that you can learn from as you go. If you prefer a more traditional route, heavy on color theory and traditional processes then this isn't the course for you. If you want practical painting guidance that is accessible, easy to follow (and fun!) then you're in the right place!
Who this course is for:
- Beginners who want to learn how to paint with acrylics
- People who learn best through practical exercises and projects rather than theory
- People who want to practice their painting skills but don't know what to paint
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 755 Reviews
- 3,966 Students
- 6 Courses
Hi, I'm Emily, I'm an artist and an art teacher. After finishing a Masters of Art & Design I returned to the simple joy of putting pencil to paper and just drawing. Since then drawing has become my passion as both an expressive art form and an enjoyable and mindful practice. In 2017, after 7 years of teaching art at university level I started my own school, The Pencil Room, where I teach drawing and painting classes and workshops. From here I developed The Pencil Room Online, to share my classes in a suitable format for online learning.
My approach to teaching drawing is to give my students the skills to draw anything they choose, rather than teaching the steps to drawing just one type of subject. My focus is on changing the way you look at what you see so that you perceive it in a way that can be translated onto paper. Once you can do this, you can draw anything with time and practice.
I love the simplicity of drawing and I value doodling from the imagination as much as realistic drawing. Art doesn't need to be serious, it can be simple and playful. Making art can be fun, challenging and therapeutic and it can change the way you see the world.
Happy Drawing!
Emily
Master Art & Design