How to Use Acrylic Craft Paint on Canvas

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Angeline-Marie from angelinemarie.net and today we're learning about canvas painting. In this clip I'm going to show you how to use acrylic paint on canvas. And I have three little canvases because I'm going to start each one of them differently. The first way I'm going to start this first one is I'm just going to make and apply the paint. I'm just making a palm tree. And I don't know where I'm going to go with this. And I'm using two different ways of putting on the paint. I'm making it very watered down and I"m making it very solid. Oh maybe I'll just go ahead and paint the paint in, the blue in for the sky. Again, you can go really thick or you can go very, very lightly with the water. Now I'm not concerned about what I already painted in because the blue is going to take over that. If this were dry you can apply a few layers of the blue sky in order to fix your mistake. Now me, I think mistakes are cool. They lead to some very exciting things. But that's just me. So here you have it very thick and depending on the quality of paint too. This paint isn't the best but it'll do for our purposes. Or you can do it very, very lightly. Again I'm just dipping my paintbrush into the water. And this will also give you a different effect. Notice how the light sky, this watered down sky comes in more as if the sun were shining through that? Alright so that's two techniques. You can either apply it with a heavy hand or a very light hand. The next technique is going to be with a pallet knife. Now I don't know if this is a pallet knife. I know this is a pie knife. I just picked it up at a thrift store for fifty cents. This I think is just a regular knife or a butter knife from somewhere I think I picked it up. You can scoop up some of the paint and you can use the pallet knife. You can also paint with one of these. Paint in some kind of design. Anything you want with the pallet knife. And what that will do is, notice that the colors are mixing on the canvas and at the same time leaving some kind of very cool texture. Now I'm going to switch to the other pie knife because I know it's a little bit more flexible. There we go. Such a large pie knife and it bends. You like them when it bends. And you'll just play with it. That's the second technique. The third technique for acrylic painting that I'm going to show you is putting some texture on. Now you can either do this with modeling paste or you can do this with the regular acrylic paint. Just take some color, and any color you want. You can do it with a pallet knife or you can do it with a paintbrush. And just get some kind of sand, beach sand, dirt, whatever you have around from where ever you live, put it on, shake it off. If you want to apply color to that when it's dry you can. And if you don't you can just have that effect. This is Angeline-Marie, thank you for watching."