How to Paint With Acrylics

Video Transcript

"In this segment, I'll show you how to paint with acrylics. Acrylic painting is very, very simple art to watercolors. You still have a tube, you still got the brush, but when you come up and do the painting, it's a little bit different, because the colors are much brighter. In watercolor painting, the colors are softer, and more muted. In acrylic painting, you have these bright hues that you normally would not have in different types of colors. You would have to almost buy the color specifically to make it as bright. With acrylic painting, you have all these incredible colors that are just put on. But acrylic painting dries a lot faster than oils. You can't work with it. So you have to be sure that when you put the color on, it's the color that you want. People that paint with acrylic usually wind up using the canvas over and over again because if they don't like it, they paint just over white and they paint over it. This is a very modernistic approach here to a painting. It's not realism at all. But it shows you how acrylic paintings can come out."