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A Pa Introduction and Materials

This course aims to teach learners the fundamentals of acrylic painting through easy-to-follow modules that cover materials, techniques, and popular subjects. Key topics include the use of surfaces, tools, color mixing, and various painting methods. Essential materials are acrylic paints, brushes, and a suitable painting surface, with additional suggestions provided for a comprehensive learning experience.

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A Pa Introduction and Materials

This course aims to teach learners the fundamentals of acrylic painting through easy-to-follow modules that cover materials, techniques, and popular subjects. Key topics include the use of surfaces, tools, color mixing, and various painting methods. Essential materials are acrylic paints, brushes, and a suitable painting surface, with additional suggestions provided for a comprehensive learning experience.

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MODULE

Introduction and Materials


? What is the goal of this course?
The goal of this course is to provide the learner with a comprehensive learning experience on
painting with acrylic paint through concise and “easy to digest” modules that include videos and
ebooks. At the conclusion of the course, the learner will have been exposed to basic materials
and tools for painting with acrylics, acrylic painting techniques and applications, and popular
subjects such as landscape, still life, and abstraction. The learner will have a solid foundation
for creating their own works with acrylics.

? What will be covered in this course?


Surfaces, materials, and tools
Acrylic painting techniques and applications
How to use acrylic gel mediums
How to stretch and prepare canvas
How to mix colors
How to create light and form in a painting
Underpainting
Glazing applications
Knife painting and textural effects

Materials
The materials used in this course are only
suggestions. You may use any combination of
materials that you wish. Ultimately, the only
essential materials are acrylic paints, brushes,
water, and a surface suitable for accepting acrylic
paint.

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Materials
Acrylic Paints - Golden Heavy Body
Acrylics (Color Mixing - Classic Theory Set) -
Includes the colors: Cadmium Yellow Light,
Indian Yellow Hue, Cadmium Red Light,
Alizarin Crimson Hue, Ultramarine Blue,
Prussian Blue Hue, Viridian Green Hue,
Titanium White. *Additional colors not
included in this set: Raw Umber, Burnt
Umber, Payne’s Gray, and Phthalo Blue.

Staple Gun - Used for stretching canvas.

Gel Mediums (and Fluid Mediums) - Semi-


Gloss Topcoat, Regular Gel Semi-Gloss,
Glazing Medium, Modeling Paste, Slow
Drying Blending Gel.

Gesso - White paint mixture used for priming


and sealing surfaces for subsequent paint
applications.

Palette Paper - Used as a disposable


painting palette for mixing colors.

Canvas Paper - Textured and primed paper


suitable for paint “sketches” and practicing
techniques. Not suitable for finished works.

Stretcher Bars - Wooden bars of various


lengths that can be assembled together to
create a structural support for stretching
canvas.

Unprimed Canvas - Rolls of unprimed


canvas can be purchased in various sizes.

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Materials
Palette Knives - For mixing and applying
paint.

Canvas Board - Also called “canvas


panels”, canvas boards feature a heavily
textured, primed surface adhered to a rigid
board.

Assorted Brushes - Hog and Nylon bristles


in various shapes and sizes.

“HB” Pencil - A standard writing pencil (#2).

Cloth - Used for wiping away color from the


brush.

Brushes
Bristle Type

Acrylic paint is a thick painting medium. For this reason, the bristles of the brush should be
flexible enough to handle both light and heavier applications. This makes Nylon and Hog
bristles preferred among many acrylic painters.

Polyester Nylon Hog

Polyester fibers are used Nylon bristles are great for Hog bristles are coarse and
for applying gesso to limit applying transparent glazes strong allowing for heavy
visible brush strokes. as well as heavier applications of the paint.
applications.

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Brushes
Bristle Shape

The shape of the bristles of the brush clearly play a role in the resulting mark. A variety of
different shapes are used for acrylic painting. The most common bristle shapes are featured
below.

Flat

Flat bristles are long and rectangular. They feature a flat "toe" and are
capable of producing flat strokes. They can also be used to create
defined edges and controlled lines.

Bright

Bright bristles, like flat brushes, feature a flat "toe". The difference lies in
the length of the bristles. Bright brushes are shorter and form a shape
similar to a square instead of a rectangle.

Filbert

Filbert brushes feature a curved "toe". Capable of holding a good amount


of paint and producing a wide variety marks, filbert brushes are widely
used by oil and acrylic painters.

Round

The most versatile brush type is the round brush. Featuring a round
"toe", a round brush is able to produce detailed, controlled marks as well
as thicker ones.

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Acrylic Paint
Acrylic paint is made up of three ingredients - pigment, binder, and solvent.

Pigment - Material that gives paint its color. Pigments can either be synthetic or natural.
Artist quality paints are named according to the pigments that are used to produce
them.

Binder - Material that holds the pigment together, allowing it to be spread on a surface.
Acrylic polymer emulsion is the binder used in acrylic paints. It is the binder that gives
acrylic paint its unique characteristics.

Solvent - Liquid that affects the viscosity of the paint. The solvent for acrylic paint is
water.

Stock images via 123RF.com “Paint Tube” by loopall, “Molecule” by Luka Culig

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