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Summary: Need help with your acrylic painting? Our expert is here to teach about highlights and shadows in this free art lesson video clip on painting with acrylics.
Kristine Mueller is an artist and designer who has studied drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and design at Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL, Otis...read more
"As you can see, I'm starting to get to a little bit more of the highlights and shadows and I did a little bit of this before we started. Because I wanted to show you what I'm talking about here with the highlights, it's nice to sort of work into them a little bit. But in order to get that final sort of pop light, it's very close to pure white you need to let the paint to completely dry. So this is still drying around here this is still a little bit of texture to it so we are going to let that dry and then I would go back in there with some white and just hit like a pop right there. In the meantime, I'm going to be working more on my shadows. You really want to get that separation shadow to show that your object is laying on the table. So this is what I did here and then I started working on the shading of the roundness of the fruits. It's going to start to take form here and I'm going to continue to work on my shadows and highlights."