Know Your Acrylic Paints: Expand Your Palette
Learn to select and mix the perfect acrylic pigments for results you love.
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Learn to select and mix the perfect acrylic pigments for results you love.
Inside Color
Meet Mary Morrison, a full-time painter, teacher and exhibitor for the past 25 years, and your guide to the world of acrylic paints. Mary will first help you understand the primary colors, the building blocks of art, and recognize the subtle differences within them as you select your palette.
Modern Colors
Mary discusses how modern and mineral pigments differ at the microscopic level and how that alters their appearance on the canvas. Then she mixes brilliant secondary and tertiary colors and adds them to her color wheel, while also demonstrating how best to control tint strength.
Mineral Colors
Matted, muted and opaque may not sound like benefits, but they are on Mary’s capable brush. Learn to use minerals, the same palette employed by the greatest painters in history. Then make a color wheel with this set of colors, and watch as Mary color-matches on a pre-made landscape.
Blacks & Whites
Even black and white can look dramatically different when paired with each other or with complementary colors. Explore a variety of shades, depths and effects by mixing and pairing blacks, whites and colors with Mary’s guidance.
Neutral Grays
Neutral grays can help you expand your palette in the most surprising and robust ways. Mary creates a value scale from bone black to titanium white, an invaluable exercise in gradation. She also completes a tint, tone and shade board then mixes grays with other pigments to create unexpected colors.
Iridescent Colors
Add pop and brilliance to your work with iridescent paints. Mary walks through a primer on these unique pigments and shows where this molten-metal look can be featured in paintings. She also teaches a new method, the paper towel pounce, and introduces a new tool, the catalyst.
Interference Colors
Interference colors offer an exciting prismatic sheen. Mary demonstrates when, how and how not to apply dashes of this painting spice to add subtle contrast and depth. Also learn how to mix interference colors and see them applied to an almost-completed painting.
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