Impressionist Painting with Acrylics: Techniques for Urban Scenes

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll learn the importance of working from your own reference material and the considerations you might make when photographing or processing it.”

In this video lesson Hashim Akib addresses the topic: Choosing Reference Material, 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 choosing your reference material and where exactly do you get it from and what you do with it when you find it. When I paint my acrylic paintings, I often choose my own reference and gather my own reference from photos I've taken. The Impressionist painters are well known for painting in plain air, which means they went out, they set up their easel in front of a landscape, a stream, a cityscape, and would paint the scene in plain air. If you're a busy artist, what you might do is you'll go to a location and take plenty of photos, which is what I tend t...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 5349 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (4h 30m)
• 15 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Acrylic Painting, Fine Arts, Painting