How to Use Acrylic Paints on Canvas

Video Transcript

"Welcome guys, my name is Lars Erik Robinson, I'm with Lars Arts. I'm a freelance illustrator and today I'm going to talk about how to use acrylics on canvas. Now there's all different kinds of canvases, today I'm using a canvas board which is already on a board which has a hard back to it. But sometimes you can get a canvas that actually has the canvas wooden frame, which when you push on it, it goes in, so then you can't obviously can't push as hard on it, you have to be, you use more just your brush part itself, and not push on it 'cause it's going to sink right in. You're wondering why doesn't this person don't have a neck, so let's get our neck in here, so we were just playing around on this. So if I was working on a harder - on another kind of canvas where it pushes back, I would just try to use my bristle part of the brush and not try to push down on it too hard because you might be able to go right through it, so don't want to do that. If you wonder how is he going to get that harder edge right there, you just take one paint on one side of it, and we can go like that... once again, don't be afraid to just take the sponge, if you don't feel it's right, just smudge it out a little bit. And you have to do that before it dries with the acrylic paints, they can dry pretty quick, that's what's the advantage, that's why it's good with acrylic paints, 'cause it's a good under painting medium for your final piece. Well hope you enjoyed that, thank you so much for joining me, my name is Lars Robinson."