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5 Steps on How to Paint a Vibrant Acrylic Portrait

By Matt Philleo

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free + paid
Published
2020
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About this lesson

Matt Philleo shows a five-step glazing process for a vibrant acrylic portrait, starting from a sealed colored-pencil sketch through thin raw umber/ultramarine underlayers, then introducing saturated colors like hot pink in thin glazes over ten or more layers to keep highlights luminous.