Using Burnt Umber & Titanium White, establish the darkest area of the picture.

Establish the darkest darks and lightest lights. Don’t worry if it isn’t completely accurate. Using a 3B pencil, sketch out the image to work from. See: How to apply a yellow ochre-coloured ground. This will help give you a unified tone to work on and give you a nice under glow of colour for this particular painting. However, when we combine the principles from classical painting with the new modern materials of acrylic painting to create a method of painting that is both simple for the beginner to create pleasing results and broad enough for more practised artists to continue their study. To tell you that this is the ‘magic bullet’, the wonder colour that will solve all your painting problems. Paint manufacturers have the urge to constantly produce a new variety or shade of pigment. There are literally thousands of choices of different colours.

These days choosing paints to start with can be a tough choice. This is why it is often referred to now as French Ultramarine. It was extracted from lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone used as the raw ingredient until the colourmaker Jean-Baptiste Guimet created a synthetic alternative to lapis lazuli in France in 1828. The pigment Ultramarine blue famously used to be more expensive than gold. Often, the bluer the painting, the richer the patron. Not just aesthetically but as a sign of power. Painting was seen as a craft you had an apprenticeship or trained in an Atelier workshop.Ĭolour choice was limited, the vivid bright colours found in acrylics today just weren’t available, and pigment choice paid an integral part in the painting process. Permanent Alizarin Crimson – Winsor & Newton Artist Acrylic.– Invest in this white even if you use student quality paint for the rest of the colours. Size 10 Isabey memory brush – round – Available from Jackson’s art.Size 6 Isabey Isacryl acrylic brush – filbert.– I’m using a Winsor & Newton deep edge canvas

The image below can be ‘right clicked’ and ‘Save image as’, so you can use it as a guide. It’s free to subscribe to the channel so you can keep updated with the painting progress. In this series, I will be posting a weekly video on my YouTube channel to follow along at home. “Painting is very easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do”Įdgar Degas Lessons for an absolute beginner A step-by-step approach to acrylic painting

Landscape picture for tempera painting