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Top 5 Acrylic Flower Painting Techniques

By Marianne Vander Dussen

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2025
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About this lesson

Explains five principles for realistic acrylic flowers: building in stages over a thin burnt umber base, using a split-primary palette to avoid mud, prioritising value (shadows mixed from ultramarine and burnt umber rather than black), softening edges with semi-transparent layers and dry brushing, and exploiting warm/cool temperature contrast.