Painting Acrylic Mandalas with Professional Techniques
Choosing the Materials
A course by Lizzie Snow , Visual Artist
About the video: Choosing the Materials
Overview
“Choosing your painting materials can be a lot of fun. In this lesson, I'll show you how to select a surface and pick the mediums and tools. I'll also talk about why investing in your materials is crucial. ”
In this video lesson Lizzie Snow addresses the topic: Choosing the Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting Acrylic Mandalas with Professional Techniques. Learn to paint long-lasting mandalas with acrylic using professional, archival techniques, from the initial pencil sketch to the finished panel painting.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Choosing the Materials In this lesson, we will be choosing the materials to paint our mandala. We will choose the surface that we're going to paint on, which paints we'll actually use, the varnish and finishing touches, and everything in between. Because we're going to be painting on a panel, there are different choices to choose from. I've put together a quick presentation to show you the pros and cons of different surfaces, so I'll show you that now. There are so many different variations of lots of different surfaces and each has different pros and cons. I'm quickly going to go over th...”
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Course summary for: Painting Acrylic Mandalas with Professional Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Drawing, Painting

Lizzie Snow
A course by Lizzie Snow
Lizzie Snow is a visual artist based in New Zealand and Canada. With a wide online following, Lizzie is known by her artist name, fortyonehundred. By the time she graduated from university, she had already become a full-time artist with a number of exhibitions, international commissions, collaborations, and set up her own online shop.
Her work is inspired by fractals and patterns found throughout nature. Lizzie has collaborated with brands like Apple, Lululemon, Converse, Peugeot, Topshop, Blunt Umbrellas, Roy Henry Vickers, AllBirds, Whittaker’s, and more. She has also done a number of solo and group exhibitions throughout New Zealand, Canada, and the UK.
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