Article · Artist's Cheat Sheet (Substack)
Five Paintings, Five Approaches (Part 1)
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free + paid
- Published
- 2024
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About this lesson
A plein air acrylic painter walks through how she tackled two competition landscapes: one in fast-drying heavy body acrylic under summer heat, one in slow-drying OPEN acrylic on a specially prepared surface. Covers surface prep, tools, mixing and sight-size.
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