Article · Acrylic and Canvas Fine Art
Building layers
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2017
About this lesson
Schiffbauer walks through her own four-layer method for building an abstract acrylic painting, base, dark, light and finishing layers, with progress photos of the same piece across each stage and notes on deliberately letting earlier layers show through.
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