Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
Retouching and finishing
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined July 2020
About the video: Retouching and finishing
Overview
“In this class you will see how I finish and decide each touch-up.”
In this video lesson Maria Gabriela Andrade addresses the topic: Retouching and finishing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art. Learn acrylic techniques to bring colorful, vibrant pieces to life on a range of surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Retouching and finishing In this class, I'm going to put the finishing touches on my treadmill. First, I usually let this paint dry. In this process of drying or handling the belt, there may be some failures, as we can see here in cashew. At this point, I apply a little more paint to cover these flaws or even if you want to highlight some more element. There's no secret, you just use what you learned during the course and cover those flaws. As straw is a very irregular material and I like the paint to be very uniform, I usually give these touches at the end of drying. Now is also the time f...”
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Course summary for: Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
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Acrylic Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting

Maria Gabriela Andrade
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade
Rio de Janeiro native Maria Gabriela Andrade started off her career in fashion and has been working in the field ever since. She has studied at SENAI CETIQT in Rio de Janeiro, Central Saint Martins in London, and Porto Illustration School in Porto, always with the intention of broadening her artistic vision.
Her work explores nature as well as tropical and Brazilian culture. Using lots of color, contrast, texture, and organic shapes, she loves experimenting with different mediums like watercolor, gouache, pastels, colored pencils, and acrylics.
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