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The Acrylic painting techniques that changed my art.
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items This is way more than just a typical collection of product recommendations. This list is all the things I learned, I wish I knew, and the things I discovered while trying to learn how to paint with acrylic. I’m gonna show you some of the products tha...
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MY supplies
Videos to inspire
My Work
MY supplies
Some of these get weird but trust me, they will absolutely elevate your painting skills and workflow, at least they did for me!
The best rags on the market. I use to think I shouldn't get paint on my clothes until someone told me to grab a cheep pair of sweatpants and just clean your brush directly on your pants. Now I have specific paint sweatpants that are just covered in p...
Cheap Sweatpants
I really like Winsor & Newton, but you don’t have to get this paint. One thing I do have to say, though is don’t get a cheap acrylic paint. When you start getting cheap acrylic paint I found that it gets chalky and the colors get a little lost. T...
Acrylic paint
If you’re just trying to put in the work and rack up some hours to gather some skill sets, just get the cheap canvases. You can get large packs of multiple canvases for cheap, you don’t have to buy the super fancy and expensive ones right off the bat...
Painting Canvas
Now this is what I stumbled upon that I absolutely love and have never heard anybody talk about. I use these cheap little cutting boards as my pallet. You just mix your paints on top of this and go, they’re extremely cheap( much cheaper than buying a...
Plastic Cutting Board
Now here’s something that I wish I knew right away. I feel like it definitely would’ve made a difference in the finished result of my work. The truth is, you don’t need a fancy masking tape, just get the cheap stuff. The trick is after you lie the ta...
Blue Tape
This is glazing mix it with paint to change its transparency, or use it on top of tape to create a nice clean seal. I’m not gonna lie out of all the mediums you could purchase This is the most important and yet also always overlooked. You don’t need ...
Glazing Medium
I don’t own this specific projector, the one I use is actually really old, but from what I can tell this one will work otherwise any cheap small projector will speed up your process 10X. What I like to do is I take a photo or make something in Photos...
Mini Projector
When your first starting out or even just doing some quick paintings, using cheap canvases is the way to go. There’s so much cheaper and they do almost the exact same thing as the expensive stuff, the only big difference I find is the Gesso they put ...
Liquitex BASICS Gesso
I like to buy huge packs of cheap brushes. The reason for that is, I find that no matter how expensive of a brush I get they always end up going to crap after a couple paintings. So what I find is best for my workflow I just have a collection of chea...
Artist's Loft: Brush Sets
Varnish is like the cherry on top. After you’re done painting, you put this on to seal the painting and it completely changes and elevates. The final result not only does it protect your painting, but more importantly, it gives all the paints the sam...
Liquitex Varnish
Videos to inspire
Here a couple creators on YouTube that I admire, and I learned stuff from them all the time.
This content creator makes a lot of good work and he has no problem showing his techniques to anybody that is willing to listen. He’s a fantastic artist and there’s so much you can learn from him if you’re just starting out.
How to Mix Acrylic Paint Colours : Master Colour Mixing
I remember, I came across this video when I was just starting out years ago and I was completely mind blown that someone could do this with acrylic paint. I love watching how this stuff comes together. There’s something about watching a time lapse th...
Landscape Painting Time-lapse
My Work
Just like the list, some of the stuff gets weird ha ha, but that’s the fun part about art you’re allowed to express yourself in any way you decide is worth it!
Me painting, a massive painting, using only french fries and ketchup
Huge Drawing made with FOOD
This was such a huge project, this is just a short form video, but there’s a long form video linked to this short form that you can watch the entire chaotic process play out.
My Wild Drawing Adventure
I love this one. It’s so wacky and it just worked.
Painting Without a Paintbrush [ Fish Edition ]