Article · Marianne Vander Dussen
How to Paint Flowers in Acrylic for Beginners: Realistic Iris Painting Tutorial
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
Free post; links to paid courses
About this lesson
Six stages for a realistic acrylic iris: a warm burnt umber underpainting and mixed black, blocking in shapes and values, mixing from a split-primary palette, building soft transparent layers, balancing warm and cool colour, and deciding when to stop refining.
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