Create complex designs in your acrylic pours using the sheet dip pouring method. Mesmerizing swirls and cells can be made with simple household items. This is the 4th episode in the Grumbahcer Pour44 and Academy Acrylic series.
Learn how to create amazing effects for your acrylic pours using the string pull technique. This is the third episode in a series of 4 using Grumbacher Pour44 and Academy Acrylics.
New to acrylic pouring? Learn the basics of how to do a clean and dirty pour with Grumbacher’s Pour44 and Academy Acrylic paint. No two pieces of artwork will be alike, the techniques are simple but the possibilities are endless!
Acrylic pouring is easy to set up for artists of all levels! In the first video of our Grumbacher Pour44 series, learn how to get your supplies prepped and ready to go in no time.
Artist Sophie Theroux’s lesson plan for painting pumpkins teaches beginners how to block out subjects, how to blend and layer color, and how to create shadows, midtones, and highlights. This tutorial will take novice painters about 2 hours to complete.
Never mix oil colors with acrylics or paint acrylics on top of oils. However, oils may be applied over acrylics in a few circumstances. Acrylic gesso is a great primer for raw canvas, and many oil painters prefer to use this type of gesso before oil painting. Acrylic paint may also be used in very thin, “lean” layers to create an under-painting. Acrylic paint is more flexible than oil paint, so thick applications of acrylics under your oil color may lead to cracking.
Acrylics dry very quickly and should be kept moist on the palette. A spray mister filled with water is helpful for this purpose.
Grumbacher certified artist, Richard Nowak, gives a step by step tutorial using Academy Acrylics to paint an autumn scene. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how
