**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/oLZQI7giLA0
This workshop is for anyone transitioning to acrylic or has been painting acrylic for a while. Learning acrylic layering techniques can take your acrylic painting to the next level.
This workshop will start with the basics by learning how to take advantage of acrylic’s fast drying time with wet on dry layering techniques. We’ll then explore how to create better colors and more refined details with a combination of transparent washes, color glazes, and opaque layers.
In the workshop you will learn:
The sequence of acrylic layering to achieve vibrant and translucent colors;
How to create subtle colors and fine details with underpainting and overpainting layers;
Color glazes to adjust color hue and saturation, soften edges and details, while strengthening and shifting focal points;
When, where, and how to apply and combine transparent, semi opaque, and opaque acrylic layers;
How to build up layers using acrylic medium and varnishes;
What subject matters are best suited for which layering technique.
Week 1 -
We’ll go over the basics of acrylic layering techniques. This includes:
The difference between opaque painting and transparent/semi opaque painting;
How to choose the right acrylic materials for different acrylic layering techniques according to your own sensibilities.
We’ll do a quick study of 3 different layering techniques so you’ll get a good overview of the different ways of layering in acrylic.
Week 2 -
We’ll create a painting with vibrant colors in a dramatic scenery using my transparent acrylic layering technique. The technique was inspired by the paintings and illustrations of Maxfield Parrish and is great for anyone transitioning from watercolor to acrylic as the first few layers are quite similar to watercolor.
Week 3 -
We’ll learn the Dutch Master acrylic layering technique. I developed this technique after studying the works of Baroque painters like Peter Paul Ruben and Vermeer. By using the same color layering techniques as the old masters, you’ll learn to create a painting with subtle and nuanced colors and detail.
· Color palette or tray
(do not use watercolor palette, cafeteria food tray is preferred)
· A roll of a parchment paper
(for lining the palette)
· Assortment of brushes: Filbert: #12, #8 #4 Small: Round # 2 #1
· A hair dryer
· #2 Pencils and rubber easers
· Small bottle of gesso
(light body or low viscosity gesso preferred, I will ask you to gesso and sand your canvas or panel in the second and third painting)
· One sheet of Wet/dry sandpaper 220 grit
(for correction and sanding gessoed paper or panel, look for sandpaper in hardware store, it’s not available in art store)
· Painting surfaces:
All painting demos will be done on 10”x8” gessoed MDF board panels
If you have more experience in oil or acrylic bring 3 canvases or gessoed wood panel, of 8”x10” if you like to paint bigger you can paint on 9”x12” or 11”x14” surfaces.
If you have more experience in watercolor bring 3 sheets of watercolor paper in 9”x12” or 11”x15” if you prefer to paint bigger (hot pressed/smooth surface preferred)
You are encouraged to experiment painting on different painting surfaces
· Acrylic colors in a tube or jar:
o Regular or soft body, or heavy acrylic only,
(Heavy body Liquitex or Heavy Body Golden, Nova Colors are the preferred brands for this workshop)
o No acrylic fluid, ink acrylic or open acrylic please.
Colors:
· Titanium White
· Yellow Ochre
· Burnt Sienna
· Raw Umber Dark or Burnt Umber
· Ultramarine Blue
· Cadmium Yellow Medium
· Cadmium Red Medium
· Gloss Medium and vanish (not gloss gel)
In smaller tubes:
· Phthalocyanine Blue (green shade)
· Dioxazine Purple
· Alizarin Crimson
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/oLZQI7giLA0
This workshop is for anyone transitioning to acrylic or has been painting acrylic for a while. Learning acrylic layering techniques can take your acrylic painting to the next level.
This workshop will start with the basics by learning how to take advantage of acrylic’s fast drying time with wet on dry layering techniques. We’ll then explore how to create better colors and more refined details with a combination of transparent washes, color glazes, and opaque layers.
In the workshop you will learn:
The sequence of acrylic layering to achieve vibrant and translucent colors;
How to create subtle colors and fine details with underpainting and overpainting layers;
Color glazes to adjust color hue and saturation, soften edges and details, while strengthening and shifting focal points;
When, where, and how to apply and combine transparent, semi opaque, and opaque acrylic layers;
How to build up layers using acrylic medium and varnishes;
What subject matters are best suited for which layering technique.
Week 1 -
We’ll go over the basics of acrylic layering techniques. This includes:
The difference between opaque painting and transparent/semi opaque painting;
How to choose the right acrylic materials for different acrylic layering techniques according to your own sensibilities.
We’ll do a quick study of 3 different layering techniques so you’ll get a good overview of the different ways of layering in acrylic.
Week 2 -
We’ll create a painting with vibrant colors in a dramatic scenery using my transparent acrylic layering technique. The technique was inspired by the paintings and illustrations of Maxfield Parrish and is great for anyone transitioning from watercolor to acrylic as the first few layers are quite similar to watercolor.
Week 3 -
We’ll learn the Dutch Master acrylic layering technique. I developed this technique after studying the works of Baroque painters like Peter Paul Ruben and Vermeer. By using the same color layering techniques as the old masters, you’ll learn to create a painting with subtle and nuanced colors and detail.
· Color palette or tray
(do not use watercolor palette, cafeteria food tray is preferred)
· A roll of a parchment paper
(for lining the palette)
· Assortment of brushes: Filbert: #12, #8 #4 Small: Round # 2 #1
· A hair dryer
· #2 Pencils and rubber easers
· Small bottle of gesso
(light body or low viscosity gesso preferred, I will ask you to gesso and sand your canvas or panel in the second and third painting)
· One sheet of Wet/dry sandpaper 220 grit
(for correction and sanding gessoed paper or panel, look for sandpaper in hardware store, it’s not available in art store)
· Painting surfaces:
All painting demos will be done on 10”x8” gessoed MDF board panels
If you have more experience in oil or acrylic bring 3 canvases or gessoed wood panel, of 8”x10” if you like to paint bigger you can paint on 9”x12” or 11”x14” surfaces.
If you have more experience in watercolor bring 3 sheets of watercolor paper in 9”x12” or 11”x15” if you prefer to paint bigger (hot pressed/smooth surface preferred)
You are encouraged to experiment painting on different painting surfaces
· Acrylic colors in a tube or jar:
o Regular or soft body, or heavy acrylic only,
(Heavy body Liquitex or Heavy Body Golden, Nova Colors are the preferred brands for this workshop)
o No acrylic fluid, ink acrylic or open acrylic please.
Colors:
· Titanium White
· Yellow Ochre
· Burnt Sienna
· Raw Umber Dark or Burnt Umber
· Ultramarine Blue
· Cadmium Yellow Medium
· Cadmium Red Medium
· Gloss Medium and vanish (not gloss gel)
In smaller tubes:
· Phthalocyanine Blue (green shade)
· Dioxazine Purple
· Alizarin Crimson
