Tag: Acrylic Class Info

  • Doing A Value Study

    Tips from Today’s Session Students, following are a couple of things to remember as you develop the value studies  and plan for your final canvas: Begin working your idea as a sketch, on sketch paper Ideally, put a ground on your intended painting support (canvas paper, poster board) to begin your “value study” before you…

  • Mixing Colors

    The class went great yesterday.  Remember, we didn’t have time to make a chart mixing your primary colors with your secondary colors and then changing each of the mixes value by tinting the mix with white to change the value, so make that chart.  Also remember that your blue, green and yellow charts will use a…

  • Old Master’s Methods

    Many of my students ask:  what is the difference between the Old Master’s paintings and those that were done during the nineteenth century by the Impressionist, didn’t they both work in oils?  The difference is not whether they used oils, watercolor or gouache: it lies in the methodology they used in applying the pigments combined…