Article · Realistic Acrylic Portrait School
5 Steps on How to Paint a Vibrant Acrylic Portrait
By Matt Philleo
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free + paid
- Published
- 2020
Free article; paid courses offered separately
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.
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