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Getting Started with Acrylic Painting 🎨 | Products and tips to help create art with acrylic paint!
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items I’ve always been a crafty girl, and painting is such a great medium to get started with! Acrylics are my preferred materials, so that’s what this list will focus on 🖌️ This list includes a section for tips and advice which link to outside videos/con...
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Beginner-Friendly Products 🎨
Tips and Tricks ✨
These are just links to various resources that have helped me tremendously with both technique and developing my own style 💕
Colour theory is one of my favourite things to play with, and this lovely lady has some brilliant tips and tricks to help you get started!!
Colour Theory Tips from @msfrizzleart on TikTok
I just think the way she paints backgrounds and the techniques she shares can be applied to a lot of different styles!!
Background Tutorial by @chilecollective on TikTok
I love their tutorials so much, they helped me learn a lot about how to work with acrylics!!
How to Paint Sunset Clouds Tutorial by @msfrizzleart on TikTok
Super helpful basic info!!
Tints, Tones, and Shades Info from @nikitacoulombe on TikTok
This creator has a lot of different tips for mixing colours on their page!!
Mixing Purple Turorial by @agarciabk on TikTok
This tip was a GAME CHANGER
Darkening/Dulling Colours Tutorial by @art2life_world on TikTok
Beginner-Friendly Products 🎨
Affordable products that are easy to work with and let you express yourself in a huge variety of ways!!
This is the pad that I use and I really love it! It’s affordable, the paper quality is great, and it comes with 20 sheets that you can easily tear out along the perforated edges if you want!
A4 Acrylic Paper for Pad
Magenta is essentially just a super vibrant pinkish red that will give you gorgeous colours that the primaries just can’t achieve
PEBEO - Origin Acrylics - Quinacridone Magenta
Yellow is a primary colour, so it’s an absolute must
PEBEO - Origin Acrylics Binder - Primary Yellow
Red is a primary colour, so you gotta have it!
PEBEO - Origin Acrylics 60 ml - Primary Red
Cyan is more vibrant than true blue, so this is a better option for your blue primary
PEBEO - Origin Acrylics 60 ml - Primary Cyan
White will be getting a LOT of use, so it’s worth getting a slightly cheaper product in a higher volume
Daler-Rowney Acrylic Paint 120ml White
A little bit of black goes a LONG way, so you won’t need a huge volume
PEBEO Origin Acrylics 60ml Ivory Black
You don’t need a huge range of brushes when starting out, especially if you haven’t found your style yet - but it is still absolutely worth buying from the reputable art brands!
Daler-Rowney Set of 10 Acrylic Brush Set
Paint palettes are extremely cheap and cheerful, thank god, and you really can’t go wrong with them - just pick what you think will work best for you!
Plastic Paint Palettes, Set of 2