Acrylic Faces #1

This class focuses on creating a simple portrait painting. You will see my example worked through from beginning to end. We are using Mixed media paper for the paintings. Just follow and repeat what is done in the class. Changing the direction of light for different paintings you create going forward from the class. colour palette will be limited. Paintings will be created in acrylic.

Tools & Process

1. Mixed media paper or watercolour paper A5 size.

2. For the practice sessions that you do, use weak hand for drawing initial sketch with a pencil, you will get interesting variations on lines from this technique. Happy mistakes. Practice a few of these on separate piece of paper.

3 We will use approx eight acrylic colours for this class including the white. Colours are: orange yellow, grey, burnt amber, raw sienna, pink, deep yellow, violet and titanium white.

4. For extra experimental sessions you could add up to three new colours not in the list above. shade in a tonal quality. The light and dark play of tone is the focus of the class in portraiture format. You can scrape the layers with old credit/store cards, palette knives or any other scraping tool you have to hand. I use my catalyst wedge in the class. I buy most of my tools online from amazon because of my locality, but if you have a local art store pop in and see what supplies they have in store.

5. OPTIONAL:- Once the acrylic dries you could use a selection of ink pens to scribble add to the sketchy technique or fill in bold areas like eyes and hair or background.

6. EXPERIMENTATION:- After the class you can use other singular colours to repeat the whole class. Like sepia, reds, greens... Contrast and pattern is can be fun.

P.S - You can can have a spritzer to keep painting and paints moist.

Video to Watch Of Similar Process:

Timelapse Tonal Example

Gabriela Aguilar

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