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How to Mix Pink & Purple Paint with Acrylics (video)

Mixing red and white acrylic paint It seems straightforward. Red and white make pink. Simple. However, a quick look at the undertone of a few red paints can show you how mixing the perfect pink can...

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Is Green Ruining Your Acrylic Paintings? (video)

Edgar Degas, Ballet Rehearsal, 1834 – 1917 Green paint is like peanut butter is for dieters, dangerously addictive. I don’t quite know why, maybe the freshness, the feeling of a landscape, the memory...

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Are these 3 Black Paint Myths Holding You Back?

Diego Velázquez, portrait of Juan de Pareja, 1650 Are you scared of using black in your paintings? Or secretly feel they are the missing ingredient to your work? If you don’t use black whilst mixing...

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How to Paint Green Summer Trees with Acrylics – Video Tutorial

Green. Love it or hate it, almost all landscape artists want to be able to paint trees, woods and grass realistically. But mixing greens can be one of the major issues that can start to throw your...

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The Secret to Painting Realistic Shadows in Sunlight

“A Painting is complete when it has a Shadow of a God” Rembrandt van Rijn I remember being taught at art college that shadows weren’t really present in paintings until the Renaissance period. And you’d...

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Distracted by Light (how a bowl of apricots sent my schedule out the window)

Will Kemp, Still Life with Apricots (detail), acrylic on canvas I’ve been distracted by an apricot. It’s not the usual thing that grabs your eye but I’m deep in the midst of filming a new simple colour...

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NEW Beginners Acrylic Colour Mixing Course is Live!

  Learn more about the course here: New Simple Colour Mixing Course I’ve designed this brand new, downloadable video course to help you understand the theory behind colour mixing, discover how to mix...

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How to Choose a Colour for a Tonal Ground (My Top 5 Pigment Choices)

Inspired by the dramatic, dark Flemish oil paintings I saw in Antwerp; I’ve just started working on a still life set up of some fab oversized pink peonies. I’m going to begin simply with acrylics then...

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Van Gogh Self Portraits at The Courtauld, London

‘People say that it is difficult to know oneself but it’s not easy to paint oneself either’ Excerpt from a letter from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, September 1889 My first introduction to the...

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How to Mix Shades of Green with Acrylics – Simple Leaf Step-by-Step

Following on from last week’s lesson, where we looked at the problem of the midday sun, I’ve put together a simple study in shaded light. In this acrylic step-by-step, we look at creating a green...

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