Acrylic Painting - Color, Texture and Value
Add success and excitement to your acrylic painting experienceChris Cozen offers exercises that are based on finding solutions to common acrylic painting questions. Dive into tools and materials advice, tips to adjusting color and value, demos working with texture, tricks to unifying a painting and more. Have fun experimenting with your acrylic paints today (Check out the Acrylic Solutions book by Chris Cozen Julie Pritchard, for supporting demonstrations and more fun ways to expand your acrylic techniques.) Innovative methods for exciting paintings Experiment with acrylic mediums and specialty colors 68 minutes of premier art instruction Preview: Develop and play with your paints as you use drips and drops of color to give structure, highlighted texture for pop. and glazes of gritty color to alter the mood. Bio/Intro: Chris Cozen is a member of the Working Artist Program for Golden Artist Colors, Inc. She lectures and teaches throughout Southern California and is the author of several books on acrylic painting techniques. With a background in education Chris teaches workshops and classes to artists with a full range of experience. Visit chriscozenartist.com for more information. MATERIALS: Measuring Tools An upright slender object that you can position to allow your eye to be the same distance each time Clear acrylic plates (or thread and matboard) Composing L's (mat board corners) Compass Cone of vision tool Gridded surface Measure stick Measuring tape Plumb line Protractor Sharpie markers (blue, red and black) Straightedge Stylus Triangle rulers TSquare Other Correction fluid Drawing paper Eraser Mechanical pencils Push pins