Impressionist Painting with Acrylics: Techniques for Urban Scenes

Overview

“In this lesson you’ll be shown how Impressionist colour mixing techniques revolutionised the way artists used colour through placing pigment side by side rather than blending.”

In this video lesson Hashim Akib addresses the topic: Optical Colour Mixing, 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 look at optical color mixing and how the Impressionists really kind of revolutionized the idea of painting with this technique. I'm going to show you an exercise using optical color mixing and really build up something like an autumnal tree, just to show you the process. I've got my brushes at the ready and my paint ready to go. I'm going to start with a small brush really to showcase the kind of marks the first Impressionists used. So when you're starting a painting with this kind of technique, you might actually want to start with some warm light colors. So ...”

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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)
• 15 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Fine Arts, Painting