Painting With Acrylics - COPYING A PHOTO -Step by Step

This lecture covers the art supplies that you will need to paint with acrylic paint, including a downloadable supply list, and talks about the materials. Also, some hints, about keeping costs down, are provided.

Understanding the colour wheel, easily, and learning how to mix acrylic paint to get the desired colours and effects.

Additional acrylic painting colour mixing and techniques that is more in-depth and will help you blend your coluors properly and create great-looking gradients on the canvas.

Choosing your subject and layout out your subject on the proper canvas size and canvas orientation.

Blocking in your painting, working with watered down paint, to till see some of the pencil outline through.

Cover your canvas so the white canvas doe not show any more.

Switching to smaller brush for further blocking (in detail), more colour accuracy, and texture.

After blocking in the figure further and building up the paint layers, we choose an even finer brush now, to work and focus on the details of the face.

After giving the face and body more detail and shape, we now use our finest brush to add in the zebra stripes on the figure, still loosely referencing the photograph.

Now we add the final touches to the painting, tightening the contours of the figure, with the fine brush, and leveraging the ruler to paint a strait line in the background, among other little details.

Please see the next lecture for the extra editing the was done to the painting, showing how easy it is to paint over an acrylic painting and make corrections, when needed.

Here is a great example of how easy it is to correct something on an acrylic painting, by simply matching the colour of the area that you want to correct, painting over the desired area, and repainting the section (strait to paint; no penciling, unless you want to do it lightly and then paint over the penciled part entirely).

Have the confidence to correct something, if it bothers you or if you see that it was wrong (in your eyes). Be true to what you see (in the photo and in real life).

Here are the process images, attached, and the final painting!

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