Shweta Misra

Shweta Misra is a professional artist and trainer for over 10 years. She conducts art and craft training classes in New Delhi for all age groups. Her specialty are paintings, drawing, cartoons and decorative items made of ceramic clay.

Step 1 – Benefits of Painting with Acrylic Paints

We are going to talk about the different types of paints, oil versus watercolor versus acrylics. One thing about acrylics is, it can be changed if you make a mistake, when you paint with watercolor, it is a wonderful medium, but if you do lay the paint down a lot of times it doesn’t come back up. With oils for example it is a great medium also, the only problem is the time that it takes to dry.

Step 2 – How to Choose Acrylic Paints

I would like to show you the difference about different kinds of paints that are used in Acrylics. The student basics versus the professional basics. These are four types of paints that I like to use and one is a student grade or academy grade and it does work very well.

Step 3 – Acrylic Painting Color Basics

We are going to show you the basics on the color wheel. Your primary colors for example are red, yellow and blue. Your secondary colors are purple, which are between red and blue, orange between red and yellow and green, between yellow and blue.

Step 4 – Acrylic Painting Supplies You Will Need

We are going to show you some of the types of items and supplies that you need to start painting in acrylics. We will start with brushes for example, as I explained before.

Step 5 – Choosing an Acrylic Paint Brush

We are going to show you different types of paint brushes for acrylic painting. First of all we will start with a big one for example. This is for blending. This one here is what we call a flat and we use that to cover more paint on the backgrounds.

Step 6 – Types of Surfaces to Paint with Acrylics

We are going to show you different surfaces to paint on in acrylics. The first we can start with is the original canvas cloth with a spreader sticks. We also have a canvas panel. It is canvas glued on hard panel.

Step 7 – How to Prepare your Canvas to Paint

Today, we are going to show you how to prepare your canvas before you start painting. You can start for example and paint on a regular canvas. It makes it a little rough, but sometimes people like to paint that way.

Step 8 – How to Create a Color Palette with Acrylic Paints

Today we are going to show a beginning palette to start with. If you like you can add to this afterwards, okay. To get started for example we are going to start with titanium white.
If you also notice that we use different brands, you can mix them there is no problem with that. This is [...]

Step 9 – Mixing Acrylic Paint Colors

We are going to mix colors. For here example I have started with a three basic colors, red, blue and yellow, as you see on the color wheel and this is my paintbrush, this is the one I would like to use a lot of smaller detail, but you can use the other ones too.
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Step 10 – Controlling Opacity & Brightness when Painting with Acrylics

Today we are going to show how to make paints opaque and also how to brighten colors. We are going to start here with a plate of again, our basic primary colors and another item that you can use to make them opaque is a Gesso, a thicker Gesso and another color, some colors that [...]

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