Are you struggling to capture vibrant light and color effects in your acrylic paintings? In this video, we tackle a common issue many artists face: achieving the brilliance of light and color with acrylics. Acrylics can sometimes get dull or muddy very easily, but with the right techniques, you can bring your paintings to life with stunning vibrancy.

In this tutorial, we'll cover:

Quality of Paints: Why good quality acrylics can make a difference in pigmentation and vibrancy.
Color Mixing: Tips to achieve the perfect hues and values, avoiding muddy mixtures.
Underpainting: How starting with a bright underpainting can make your colors pop and enhance the overall effect.
Using values for strong light and
Color Temperature for interesting color effects.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Start of Demonstration
01:26 Tip 1 Underpainting
01:53 Materials
03:04 Tip 2 Paint Quality
07:13 Scraping off
07:30 Tip 3 Clean Color and Application
10:00 Painting Knife
11:56 Tip 4 Color Temperature
14:59 Atmospheric perspective
16:13 Tip 5 Value Contrast
17:48 How to make shadows
18:44 Foreground shadow
24:11 Highlights and accents
27:27 Final details
31:29 Completion
33:06 Free course offer