Secrets of Acrylic: Landscapes Start to Finish by Jerry Yarnell

By Jerry Yarnell

Allow Jerry Yarnell train you ways to color acrylic landscapes!

You can grasp panorama portray with the aid of renowned painter Jerry Yarnell. Jerry starts off by way of exploring various parts of panorama portray that regularly create difficulties for starting and intermediate artists. He'll stroll you thru person experiences, so that you can perform and discover new recommendations with no caring approximately ruining a whole portray, then he'll enable you to follow these options to create entire works of art.

Learn how to:

• paintings with the proper materials
• grasp all crucial techniques
• decide on, combine and follow colour

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Preparing boards and canvases Primed painting surfaces come prepared for you, but raw surfaces need a surface preparation (though experimental artists even skip the priming and work with the very absorbent surface, thus staining it. ) The most common primer, or ground, is gesso. Gesso (pronounced jess-oh) is a combination of acrylic polymer emulsion, calcium carbonate, and Titanium White (as the coloring agent). It’s a liquid ground for preparing a surface to accept paint or gilding (applying gold-leaf, as in gold-leaf frames, for example).

Figure 2-10: Repair a brush with gum arabic. If you can’t save your brush, you can take scissors and snip it into a really sparse brush perfect for painting wonderful grasses and hairs on animals. Knowing when it’s time for a new brush You know you need to replace your brush when ߜ The round point on your brush can’t make fine line details. Demote it to a scrub brush and buy a new one with a sharp tip. ߜ You forget the brush in the water overnight and the bristles have a permanent L shape. ߜ The brush continues to shed hairs and drive you nuts.

The brush continues to shed hairs and drive you nuts. Toss these over-the-hill brushes in a drawer for a recycle project and splurge to get one that does not frustrate you. Chapter 2: Setting Up Supplies: Brushes, Surfaces, and Palettes Picking and Prepping Common Paint Surfaces A fancy name for what you paint on is substrate. For most painting needs, you want a flat, fine-art surface to paint on — typically paper or canvas. Because acrylic paint uses water, a regular old plain paper substrate buckles when wet.

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