Painting Life Moments with Acrylic Paint

Overview

“How do you do your gradients? In this lesson, I'm going to teach a few exercises to do color gradients on paper or scrap canvas. You will see how to go from dark brown to beige, from black to white, from light yellow to orange, etc. By varying the distance between each color. ”

In this video lesson Lossapardo addresses the topic: Gradients, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting Life Moments with Acrylic Paint. Explore the possibilities of acrylic paint and depict a life moment using brush techniques for shading, reflection, and light.

Partial transcription of the video

“Gradients In this lesson, we are going to create gradients. It will be an essential element to achieve our final project. The gradient is starting from one color to arrive at another as smoothly as possible. Here, we can start, for example, from yellow to go towards blue, from red to black, or blue to go to black too. The idea is to mix colors in the most harmonious way possible. We want going from one color to another to be almost unnoticeable. We'll start with a gradient from red to black. We will avoid putting too much water in our mixture because the water will tend to curl the paper, s...”

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Course summary for: Painting Life Moments with Acrylic Paint

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (38)
• 1863 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (3h 27m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Color Theory, Fine Arts, Painting