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Acrylic Painting Landscape Tutorial || Complete Introduction to Acrylic Painting for Beginners ||

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How to paint fog, mist and realistic landscapes! This is an acrylic painting tutorial designed as a beginner friendly survey of creating your own painting from start to finish. It’s also designed to serve as a companion piece to my free Introduction to Acrylic Painting eBook. You can visit my website to download the high resolution reference image and follow along, or use the techniques I share in the video to create your own masterpiece. I hope you enjoy, feel free to connect with me and let me know if I can support you on your own artist’s journey!

This tutorial will cover how to prime a canvas, how to use gesso, using a homemade wet palette, using a limited palette, wet on wet blending, dry brushing, and detail work. I will also cover how to use acrylic paint mediums and to blend acrylic paints to create beautiful sunset skies.

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Materials used:

– 16″ x 20″ Gallery Profile Canvas
– Gesso
– Paint: burnt umber, titanium white, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, cadmium yellow light (in this video, I used Golden Acrylics and M. Graham).
– Variety of brushes, including a foam brush for priming the canvas
– Sandpaper: 220 and 320 grit
– Liquitex Professional Slow-Dri Blending Medium
– Kamar by Krylon spray varnish