Painting Acrylic Mandalas with Professional Techniques
Pencil Sketching
A course by Lizzie Snow , Visual Artist
About the video: Pencil Sketching
Overview
“Now that the grid is set up, I'll show you how to think back to your practice patterns and start sketching out the final design in pencil. ”
In this video lesson Lizzie Snow addresses the topic: Pencil Sketching, 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
“ Pencil Sketching In this lesson, we're going to sketch our final design. This is really exciting as it's coming together and you will see the shape and form of your mandala. As you can see, the grid that I've created her is a lot lighter, so what I've done is I've taken the eraser and gone over the entire thing softly so that the grid is in the background. That means the sketching I'm going to do is on top. By now, I wonder if you've chosen one of those two different methods, so the layer-by-layer technique or the create now, meditate later. I'll demonstrate both, and I'll start with the ...”
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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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