Brighten your home with a touch of spring: a bouquet of easy-to-care-for paper lilies.They are so easy, you can make a full bouquet within an hour or two. These lilies looks very elegant and beautiful.
Salt Dough Craft an Introduction
Salt dough is a great way to model favorite fun characters, festive decorations, styling your house or even ornaments and handmade gifts. You need no special skills, tools, equipments or ingredients for this very inexpensive hobby.
Acrylic Painting a Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to paint with acrylic paint, including tips on supplies, techniques and benefits of acrylics with this free series of video art lessons.
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 …
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 …