This is a step-by-step acrylic still life project for beginners looking to learn classical painting techniques with acrylics.

What You Will Learn:

You'll learn everything you need to get started, from colour mixing to glazing.

How to prepare your canvas
How to draw out the image (even if you're brand new to drawing)
The importance of value and the trick to mixing accurate colours.
The benefit of a limited palette.
How to use glazes to add the finishing touches.

A line drawing is included so you can get painting quickly to learn classical painting methods with this modern medium.

Who This Class is For:

Beginners new to Acrylics or Oil painters wanting to try a new medium.

Materials/Resources:

You'll need a printer or access to a print shop to print out the reference image, a small canvas (8 x 10 inch), a handful of brushes and a limited palette of paints.

There is a complete material list under the "Resources" section; here are the paints:

What materials will I need?

What are the colours?

Titanium White – (Golden Heavy Body Acrylics)
Cadmium Yellow Light – (Golden Heavy Body Acrylics)
Burnt Umber – (Golden Heavy Body Acrylics)
Ultramarine Blue – (Golden Heavy Body Acrylics)
Permanent Alizarin Crimson – (Winsor & Newton Acrylics)
Green Gold – (Golden Heavy Body Acrylics) I use a super tiny amount of this; it isn't essential

And Brushes?

Small Nylon Synthetic Round
Isabey Isacryl – Size 6 Filbert
Princeton Aspen – Size 4 Round
2-inch Decorators Brush

Advice for perfectionists and procrastinators

I've started this course because sometimes you can find yourself overthinking the end result of a painting, feeling that it's got to be complicated or a masterpiece. The pressure of making it perfect can result in lots of unfinished paintings or keep you from even starting!

This course has been designed to build your knowledge and painting sills without the task becoming too much.

Starting is the hardest part – well, the thought of starting! Once you begin, it's much easier to keep going.

Who am I?

I'm Will Kemp, a professional Artist & Online Teacher from the UK.

I love paint, I love colour, and I love teaching people how to paint.

I teach beginners the fundamentals of classical painting and drawing in an accessible way in acrylics and oil paint.

I studied BA (Hons) Conceptual Fine Art alongside classical Atelier Painting Methods. I studied at the Angel Academy of Art, Charles Cecil Studios in Florence and Sarum Studios after being awarded a QEST craft scholarship.

In 2012, I launched the Will Kemp Art School Youtube Channel With 280,000+ subscribers and 24 million views. I blog at www.willkempartschool.com.

I paint from my studio by the sea in St Ives, Cornwall

And I love tea and biscuits.

Skye Dunn

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