She earned her MA in Renaissance Studies from University College London and now lives in Rome, Italy.
Hi Jane, Glad it’s time to unleash your creative side! Morning class, I’m Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School and this is part one in a free series showing you how to get started in acrylic landscape painting. Cornwall is so beautiful, a real inspiration. Cheers, Will. -Kate.
Will. Hi Gabriel, thanks for your kind comments, great to hear you’re find the tutorials simple and easy to follow. I really want to do this landscape painting following the instructions given. I’m in heaven!
So today I complied step by step acrylic painting ideas for beginners from respected artist. Hey Sandi, Glad to hear you stumbled across my videos, and you’ve found them helpful.
It’s a night picture with snow and birch trees. Just found your site and, Wow!, what a comprehensive site it is. I just completed the steps in this video and so far so good. I am a slow, learner painter in watercolour, and am sure to be the same with my acrylics, which I have never used before. Good one Zunera, so pleased you achieved some good results with the landscape painting. I found a picture in a Bob Ross book I want to paint and it says to use black Gesso for the background.
I’m slowly working up to some of your more advanced courses.
If you are using student quality paints they will be thinner in consistency so will water down quicker than the artist quality heavy body paints I demonstrate with. See how it fairly easily it makes a mark on the canvas without feeling that you have to really press into it and dent the canvas. We’re also on Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flipboard. To tell you that this is the ‘magic bullet’ the wonder colour that will solve all your painting problems. And spritzing with water as well. Thanks again, Thanks Jan, pleased you’re finding it helpful. The colour background is blue tones. A quick run to the art store for a couple tubes of better paint and I’m off to try another one. It’s best to experiment with different coloured grounds to see which colours you find yourself drawn to. Could not find a good substitute, so tried to mix various colours to replicate it, but was never satisfied. Thanks! Hi Rachel, if you mist the canvas with a water mister that will give you a longer working time for the initial application, you could also try adding a little slow drying medium into your paints to give you a longer op time. The finished result will set permanently and you'll want to be careful about how much water you add—a good rule of thumb is no more than 30% water to maintain the paint's vibrant colors and binding properties. Like the lady who posted some time earlier I’m also a nurse, now that I have a bit more free time I’m going to teach myself how to paint proper, innit. Are you unwittingly committing a compositional cardinal sin?
And that is why working with them is a sweet-bitter experience for many. Cheers, Will, Hi Will, I am brand new to painting and after 7 lessons, excited at the opportunities! Thank you! It was extracted from lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone, that was used as the raw ingredient until the colourmaker Jean-Baptiste Guimet created a synthetic alternative to lapis lazuli in France in 1828. Please let me know on the proper start for an acrylic painting for a beginner like me who has no clue on painting or mixing colors. Best, Avan. I do have a question for you and you may have already addressed it somewhere on your blog – if so, tell me where and I’ll read up on it there. You can use the lemon yellow, it won’t have as much opacity as the cadmium yellow and the colour bias of the lemon yellow is more towards blue so it will give you a slightly different effect. your website was quite helpful. Hi Bill, the Matisse Australian Sienna contains the pigments: PY83 – Diarylide Yellow PR101 – Synthetic Iron Oxide Red PY42 – Yellow iron oxide. Thanks! Hi will. Painting has proven to be one of the most marketable forms of art. 1. Well I got away from painting for a time but the creative desire reemerged so I’m back at it now.
I am going to offer this course as a download which might be of interest to you? This means when you are painting you can easily pick some more of that ‘perfect mix’. Can you point the way?? I have only the transparent vermilion and the cadminyum red hue and prymary magenta on hend. So I’ll dip it into some water and then, you know, rub it into the kitchen roll. Jeff. Do you have recommendations for “not to miss” museums or exhibits? Can i substitute permanent rose for permanent alizarin crimson?
So now we’ve got the lights and the darks, now we can back to the colours that we were mixing before to start blocking in some of the areas of colour. Less is definitely more, as the more colours you mix, the more exasperating it can become when you’re first starting. This video below shows the first steps I take to start the acrylic landscape painting.
Many thanks for your time, and I so appreciate your videos!!! This morning I am happier. Here’s an article about the differences between student grade and artist quality paint. You’re welcome Sophia, hope you’re finding the tutorials helpful.
The acrylic wash technique will allow you to build up transparent layers of colors for a watercolor look. Okay, so now with the filbert brush. What you’ll find this does is it makes the dark look darker, the lights look lighter and all these what are called halftones kinda of disappear and what you really get to is the basic structure of the picture and that’s what we are interested in. Thank you.
Regarding mixing colours, your approach can vary depending on the subject matter, however, when first starting it can be very helpful to mix a larger amount that you think you need ( I often keep these mixes in a stay-wet palette). I found your guide on color mixing very helpful, but I’m wondering where to go from there. ;), http://conniehurley.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/landscape-acrylics/.
I feel Burnt umber will be too dark for such large mountains. Can you suggest another colour? Thanks for your kind comments, pleased to hear you’ve found the landscape techniques useful in your painting. Would like it if you could suggest how to engage beginners in the first 5 classes! Yes, that will give you similar bright purples when mixed with the ultramarine blue.
Thank you…Rod NB: My dad was from Cornwall, my grandad a member of the Royal Academy.Cornwall..what a classic place to paint….cottages,fishing villages, et al. You know it’s completely clear, that’s just with plain water. Hey Will, I am a watercolor artist and just a couple weeks ago decided to play around with acrylics.
See: How to apply a yellow ochre coloured ground. (I’ve probably missed it along the way) Please look at your books and see if I owe you something. Second, you’re able to give us the info in a simple way, which is great, because since starting painting is already intimidating, not having to do it with the pressure of a class working at a certain speed make ito much easier. How to choose a brush for acrylic painting 3. I’ve never taken art classes, just what you get in high school, but have always liked drawing and painting. The instruction given is impeccable and there’s definitely something for every single beginner here.
The answer is Yes in about 1 weeks time! I do have a couple of impresssionistic still lifes within the ‘simple colour mixing course‘, wow this is great instruction for a beginner like me, I was just about to go out and pick up my first set of acrylics and i really feel like i have an idea of how to manipulate them now. Thanks for charing your knowledge to all of us… Your site is much easier to understand than any school art class. “The Old Barn” Acrylic Painting Barn in Landscape Beginners Tutorial. Thank you, Hi Nazia, pleased you’ve been enjoying the site, you could try it, the blue tones might put out your initial judgements on the warmer oranges but it should come good after a few key colours have been blocked in. I can’t tell you how helpful your videos were – seriously helpful! The picture i’m following has larger mountains. Hey Will, wanted to let you know how much I’m enjoying your website….I painted a lot in my younger years ….put the brush and paints away for many years while raising my daughter ……now finding I have more time thought I would get back at it.
I bought an ultramarine blue Grumbacher Academy paint and when I mixed it with titanium white, it turned into light blue violet. It makes a little more sense now. Half close them just so everything slightly blurs a bit. These days choosing paints to start with can be a tough choice. you can post comments or questions on that site, at each stage of the painting and I’ll reply directly to you. Really pleased you’ve stumbled across the site, looking forward helping you get started.
The video below shows how I premix and match a few key base colours to build the painting. Hi Seamus, If you want to have a more permanent fixing for the pencil then yes applying a layer of pencil fixative spray will work well, usually anything above a 2B can start to smudge depending on the absorbency of the ground.
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