Green Garden Abstract Art Demo – Easy DIY Beginner Painting with Acrylics #artdemo #artandcraft #diy
SUPER EASY – ART DEMO (Not a full tutorial)
BEGINNERS: Layering acrylics, mediums, techniques
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Impressionist-style abstract painting demo
Art demo (sped up) to show you how to lay down layers of acrylics with medium.
This can be a soft abstract finished painting, or the background start to a more intricate artwork (once dried).
This demo is an example of working with wet-on-wet acrylics.
Wet-on-wet means you are working on top of wet paint; the layers are not dried in between color applications.
The bottom yellow/white layers is still wet when the green and additional white is applied.
This is a very simple technique, but obviously must be done quickly. Acrylics tend to dry fast and working like this requires quick application and, often, additional medium to allow a longer working time.
I use a retarder medium to allow this.
I use this brand or acrylic retarder but there are others. Just look something that allows slow drying.
The brushes used were a medium flat brush and a small utility brush.
The medium brush was used to apply most of the wet and then then I picked up a DRY smaller brush to apply the green and continue.
NOTE: I used a dry brush over the wet to keep the colors somewhat separate. Otherwise, using the wet brush would have blended the colors together more than I wanted.
Using a dry brush sounds counter-intuitive, however it allows me to keep the colors from mixing too much.
Toward the end I changed the position of the brush and laid it flat against the canvas in order to create a “stippled” effect – lifting some of the wet paint up into tiny peaks.
You can see the final effect better in the photograph. Small bits of texture have been created with the peaks.
💛Two Beginner Acrylic Paints Set I LOVE and HIGHLY RECOMMEND
LIQUITEX BASICS – I’ve used these for years and they are really nice for any level of artist. If you are creating a higher-end work for sale, you’ll likely switch to the pro-grade, but for beginners and experimenting, you’ll love these! (The painting in the demo above was created using this set.)
ARTEZA ACRYLIC PAINTS – super buttery and wonderful to work with (I especially love the metallics.)
These are going to have almost all the colors you would need to create many, many paintings.
Add some good acrylic mediums and you’ve got a nice, final finished artwork.
Some paint sets are cheaper, but trust me, I’ve been burned! They don’t mix as well. They are chalky and dry. They don’t create a final, beautiful arwork.
Once you buy a small set of paints, you’ll find the colors you like to use the most and then you can buy larger sizes of those.
Who needs a lot of browns if you don’t really ever use browns?
I bought these two sets and I reach for them often!