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Realistic painting with acrylics on canvas: Stones

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  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 21:09
  • Media: Video/mp4
  • Posted: 10/23/2009
  • Use: Watch Online & Download
  • Download: MP4 (iPod compatible)
  • Size: 262 MB

21 minutes crammed with tips, inspiration and ideas as you see how a large painting comes to life.
Includes:
Drawing the sketch on canvas.
Mixing acrylic colours.
Monochrome underpainting.
Creating depth and 3D effects.
Splattering with toothbrush and water for more special effects.
Using rags, cotton buds and fingertips as well as different types of brushes.
Many ways of creating surface texture and structure.
Close-ups of details.
The secret behind rendering soft transitions with fast drying acrylics.
Using transparent layers.
Creating the impression of stones under turbulent water.

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Elizabeth Tyler
Elizabeth Tyler
3 lessons
Joined:
09/22/2009

Elizabeth Tyler was born in Leamington Spa, England in 1946. She has been a professional artist for four decades and exhibits her artworks regularly at galleries and art museums in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
She is the author and illustrator of “Akvarelbogen” (The watercolour book) published by Gydendals publishing house in Copenhagen, 2005.
She has received many awards and prizes for her work and is represented in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the USA.
Elizabeth Tyler lives and works in southern Sweden six months a year, the other six months are spent in her and her husband's small yacht "Aquarella" somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. She often finds...

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