Course Highlights
  • Learn about cleaners and brush techniques-including what each brush is designed to do, how to hold them correctly, positioning and motion
  • Lesson 1 is designed to familiarize you with the terminologies I’ll be using throughout the rest of the course and get you acquainted with the 5 value greyscale
  • This course starts at the ground and builds every student up from there, to make sure you have a solid foundation to grow from.
  • You’ll learn the science behind different materials like acrylic mediums, what they do and how to use them correctly to make your colors more vibrant!
  • These exercises are also designed to begin teaching you the core fundamentals of acrylic painting. developed over years of teaching
  • You’ll do your first painting using the new techniques, based on a simple image that I'll supply you.
  • You’ll learn an approach to doing a drawing specifically for a painting, an easy system to get your drawing right every time
  • You’ll learn how to do an underpainting/how to paint in layers to achieve realism As well as shading and blending techniques that will give you better gradients
  • You’ll paint a still life of an old chrome kettle from a hi res photograph I’ll supply you.
  • This lesson is designed to teach you how to handle textures, like metal, scratches, bright highlights and reflective surfaces, as well as atmosphere
  • You’ll learn visualization and simplification techniques that I’ve developed to make painting easy for anyone.
  • Next, I'll teach you to use color in a painting and begin learning basic color theory concepts and compositions.
  • I’ll show you how to use a new kind of color mixing technique, that will make mixing any color imaginable easy- and make sure you never get muddy colors again!
  • You’ll learn the difference between chroma, color and values and how to control them, as well as how to manage a combination of colors on one palette.
  • Next, you’ll paint a still life of a grapefruit, based on an image I'll supply you. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to compose complex color schemes in your pa
  • You'll learn how to compartmentalize images to simplify them and make painting anything easier!
  • I'll teach you how to manage a controlled color palette with over 5 color scales on it and insure that your paintings are always bright and vibrant!
  • Next, you’ll paint a portrait. You’ll learn a method to mixing a perfect skin tone, every time and the rules to portrait painting.
  • You’ll get an in-depth lesson on painting detail and how to easily add incredible detail to a painting without needing extreme patients.
  • I'll show you tricks to painting eyes and hair.
  • I'll explain techniques to draw a viewers attention to desired focal points in your paintings.
  • You’ll learn how to varnish a painting and give it a beautiful, glossy, finished look.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

1 Topic
SUPPLY LIST

1 Topic
INTRODUCTION

6 Topics
1 SETTING UP THE BLENDING EXERCISE
2 MIXING THE GREYSCALE
3 USING LIQUID MEDIUMS
4 BLENDING EXERCISE PART 1.mp4
5 BLENDING EXERCISE PART 2
6 CLEANING YOUR BRUSHES

16 Topics
7 PAINTING THE EGGS (USING THE GRID SYSTEM)
8 CREATING A CARBON COPY AND PREPING A SURFACE
9 TRANSFERRING YOUR DRAWING
10 DOING AN UNDERPAINTING PART 1.mp4
11 CONTINUED UNDERPAINTING THE FOREGROUND
12 GLAZING AND ISOLATION COAT
13 PAINTING IN LAYERS
14 SECONG COAT ON THE 1st EGG
15 2ND COAT PAINTING THE 2nd EGG
16 PAINTING IN LAYERS 3RD and FINAL COAT
17 3rd COAT BACKGROUND
18 FINAL SUBJECT COAT PART 1
19 FINAL COAT ON THE SUBJECT PART 2
20 THE DETAIL COAT
21 FINISHING TOUCHES.mp4
22 ISOLATION COAT AND FINAL VARNISH

15 Topics
23 PAINTING THE ORANGE BALOON INTRODUCTION TO COLOR.mp4
24 CREATING A CARBON COPY .mp4
25 INTRODUCTION TO COLOR THEORY
26 MIXING A COOL/BLUE TONED GREYSCALE
27 DOING A COOL/BLUE TONED UNDERPAINTING (PART 1 BACKGROUND)
28 COOL/BLUE TONED UNDERPAINTING PART 2 FOREGROUND
29 FIRST COLOR COAT (BACKGROUND)
30 MIXING AN ORANGE COLOR SCALE
31 PAINTING IN COLOR
32 THE SECOND COLOR COAT
33 THE SECOND COLOR COAT (CONTINUED)
34 THE FINAL COLOR COAT
35 THE DETAIL COAT.mp4
36 COLOR CONTINUITY
37 ISOLATION COAT AND FINAL VARNISH

16 Topics
38 PAINTING THE KETTLE (GETTING SET UP)
39 CREATING A GRID WITH A DETAIL AREA
40 DRAWING THE KETTLE/CHROME
40 PART 2 FORM LIGHTING AND BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY
41 PREPARING YOUR ILLUSTRATION BOARD AND TRANSFERRING YOUR DRAWING
42 UNDERPAINTING (BACKGROUND)
43 UNDERPAINTING (FOREGROUND)
44 UNDERPAINTING (FOREGROUND) continued
45 2ND COAT (BACKGROUND)
46 2ND COAT (SUBJECT).mp4
47 3RD COAT (BACKGROUND)
48 3RD COAT (FOREGROUND)
49 DETAIL COAT (BACKGROUND AUDIT)
50 DETAIL COAT (KETTLE)
51 FINE DETAIL COAT
52 ISOLATION COAT AND FINAL VARNISH

27 Topics
53 PAINTING THE GRAPEFRUIT
54 DRAWING THE GRAPEFRUIT
55 CREATING A CARBON COPY.mp4
56 UNDERPAINTING THE GRAPEFRUIT
57 ISOLATING IMAGES PART 1.mp4
58 ISOLATING IMAGES part 2
59 ISOLATING IMAGES PART 3
60 ISOLATING IMAGES PART 4
61 2nd COAT
62 1st Color Coat Orange Section 1
63 1st Color Coat Orange Section 2
64 st Color Coat Orange Section 3
65 1st Color Coat Orange Section 4
66 MIXING THE RED SCALE
67 2nd COLOR COAT- SECTION 1.mp4
68 2nd COLOR COAT- SECTION 2
69 2nd COLOR COAT- SECTION 3 (part 1)
70 2nd COLOR COAT- SECTION 3 (part 2 continued)
71 2nd COLOR COAT- SECTION 4 part 1
72 2nd COLOR COAT- SECTION 4 (CONTINUED)
73 The Split-Complementary Color Scheme.mp4
74 COMBINING SCALES TURCOISE
75 FINAL COLOR COAT
76 DETAIL COAT
77 ADDING DETAIL
78 FINAL GLAZE
79 ISOLATION COAT AND FINAL VARNISH

23 Topics
80 DRAWIING/TRANSFER/GLAZE part 1.mp4
81 DRAWIING/TRANZFER/GLAZE CONTINUED
82 UNDERPAINTING
83 UNDERPAINTING continued
84 1st COLOR COAT
85 1st COLOR COAT continued
86 MIXING A SKIN TONE
87 MIXING THE RED AND YELLOW SCALES
88 PAINTING SKIN TONE part 1
89 PAINTING SKIN TONE part 2 .mp4
90 PAINTING SKIN TONE part 3
91 2nd COLOR COAT (SUNGLASSES)
91 2nd COLOR COAT (SUNGLASSES) CONTINUED
92 2nd COLOR COAT (SKINTONE) .mp4
93 2nd color coat (continued)
94 3nd COLOR COAT ADJUSTMENT LAYER
95 triadic COLOR SCHEME
96 TRIADIC COLOR SCHEME continued.mp4
97 PAINTING EYES
98 PAINTING EYES CONTINUED AND DETAIL COAT
99 PAINTING EYES DETAIL COAT
100 DETAIL COAT (FINAL ADJUSTMENTS)
101 FINAL VARNISH

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