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How to Paint Flowers in Acrylic for Beginners: Realistic Iris Painting Tutorial

By Marianne Vander Dussen

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2025
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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.