Video: Brush Techniques for Acrylic Painting: Pt. 3

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Learn how to use brush stroke techniques to paint with acrylics in this free video art lesson.

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- Principals of Composition in Acrylic Painting: Pt. 3

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Hi I'm Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you some more on how to use the brushes that we've been describing and the tools to make an end result of acrylic painting. This is a fan brush and I showed you before my two sizes that I brought with me today and I just wanted you to see what kind of a stroke it will create and I can show you a couple of strokes but there are more things that you can do with this it just depends on you. Whatever your painting, whatever your trying to and I'm just going try to show you what it will do. So you load your brush and you make sure that it doesn't have to much on it, until your use what its going to do once you learn how to do it. Load it to the comfort level for you. I just wanted to show you the kind of marks you can make with it. This is using it from both sides and say that you have a tree that you wanted to have, kind of oozing my paint here. This is good for ferns also, I'm not doing a very good application to create a fern right now, I'm just putting out the beginning kind of unique looking tree. We have to have some the limbs sticking out from the front, we want to get some highlight color. See if you can fill in some of the blank areas. The fun thing about acrylic is you can go back over it when its dry and put highlight and not put enough in or you just want to change a little something. I seem I'm having a little shortage on green but we'll work it out. There is the, it doesn't really fit our landscape but it does look like sort of the beginnings of a weeping willow and that's one of the uses for this particular brush don't let easel fall down if you buy one of these easels be sure its screwed tightly so you don't loose it. I'm going to show you grass with this brush. Usually I have a paper towel sitting right next to me so that I can brush off any access without dipping back into the pot. We'll come back and show you this application if we can't seem to do it right here maybe I can get a little grass going for you right there. Visualize a foregrounding grass you'll see this later. I'll be doing it a again a few minutes.

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Brush Techniques for Acrylic Painting: Pt. 3

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