Article · The Painting Life
How to Paint Rain (in Acrylic)
By Byrne Smith
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2014
About this lesson
Ten practical points for rainy scenes in acrylic, including a cool neutral ground, softened distant edges, and painting puddles and wet horizontal surfaces lighter than the ground and close to the sky colour so they read as reflecting water.
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