Painting Acrylic Mandalas with Professional Techniques
Setting up the Grid
A course by Lizzie Snow , Visual Artist
About the video: Setting up the Grid
Overview
“Setting up the grid is how you make a perfect mandala. Using a compass, ruler, and pencil, you'll now learn to draw the foundations.”
In this video lesson Lizzie Snow addresses the topic: Setting up the Grid, 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
“ Setting up the Grid The first step of creating a perfect mandala is creating a grid. We're going to do that in this lesson using our compasses, ruler, right angle and protractor. This step is really important for the accuracy and overall look of what the mandala will be like. You can try practicing on a piece of paper first. In the Additional Resources, there's that grid template. so you could try tracing that or trying on a different panel before you do it on this panel which you've spent so much time prepping. The panel that I'm using here is 50 cm. We need to find the very centre of 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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