Impressionist Painting with Acrylics: Techniques for Urban Scenes

Overview

“In this lesson you’ll open your eyes to colour, a ‘black and white into colour’ exercise will introduce you to using colour positively. We will also look at how colour temperature can engage a more emotional response from your artworks.”

In this video lesson Hashim Akib addresses the topic: Seeing Colour 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Impressionist Painting with Acrylics: Techniques for Urban Scenes. Learn how to create vibrant impressionistic paintings using acrylics, focusing on dynamic street scenes and color techniques..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to be seeing color and just the importance of just being aware of using color in paintings, especially acrylic and impressionistic paintings. And the best way really for me to showcase to you is with an exercise where we're working with a black and white photograph. That way we can substitute color or substitute tone for color. So for example, where you see any darks, we can use cool colors because it's a cool area. And where we see lights and very strong lights, we can imagine those as warm areas. So we can use a range of warm colors for that particular area. An...”

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Course summary for: Impressionist Painting with Acrylics: Techniques for Urban Scenes

• Level: Beginner
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• 5357 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (4h 30m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Fine Arts, Painting