Article · ARTiful: painting demos
How to paint with acrylic inks and mixed media on canvas
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2014
About this lesson
Photographed step-by-step flower painting with no reference: a loose background of fluid acrylic and acrylic ink textured with rubbing alcohol, flower shapes found and outlined in it, negative space painted in white, then translucent ink and fluid acrylic layers, pen patterns and oil-marker accents.
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