To paint looser, you don’t need to throw out everything you’ve been doing. Instead, it’s abouttweaking the variables—the brush, paint consistency, surface, speed, handling, and pressure. By experimenting with each of these elements, you can find a balance that feels more expressive and...
The great thing about acrylics is you can apply theses little areas of intense colour to other parts of your paintings to add interest and contrast. You can seehow Van Gogh used a similar technique here. Using quite a thick paint on my brush, I then gently dab thick, white flecks of co...
Painting a Landscape. . . Why paint a landscape? Lots of ideas about painting on location, the impressionist landscape, painting landscapes and being a landscape artist. Colour. . . Why we use it, and how to use it . . . Consider colour theory, color wheels, color mixing and being a ...
These idealized views may seem harmless, but they can work behind the scenes to bias our decisions and paint things that are not actually there. I see it all the time in beginner paintings-they are unsure about the color of the leaves, so they default to green, even if the leaves are ...
A.Follow the painter’s footprints and you will find Impressionism easier to understand than you think. B.Even if you know nothing about Impressionism, these instructions will help you develop an appreciation for Impressionist paintings. C.They revealed what the world was like from children’s per...
To give it that painting feeling, we are going to add a bit of a pixelation. This imitates the irregularities paint tends to have over canvas. To do so, Click on Filter in the toolbar, go to Pixelate and click Pointillize. Select the point diameter you like. I prefer them to be sm...
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Just like with real dark hair, we need to bleach it first. Create three adjustment layers with no saturation: dark—brighter—bright, and use Blend-if to combine them.Step 7When you're done, you can adjust the shades to achieve a uniform result and even paint on the masks if something...
Go to Filter > Stylize > Oil Paint, and set the Stylization to 2, and Cleanliness to 2. Then, go to Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask, and set the Amount to 500%, Radius to 0.3 px, and Threshold to 0 levels. Step 6 Select the Background layer and press Control-J to duplicate it...
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