Archive Monthly Archives: April 2023
Is it possible to fix a portrait you’re not happy with in 30 minutes?
What can you do for a portrait painting in 30 minutes?
In this video, I’d like to show you a 30-minute acrylic portrait that I decided to add more time to. (Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the original video for the first half hour!! )
I wasn’t entirely happy with the likeness and realism that I achieved, so I figured I would record another video to show you what is possible during that time.
By giving yourself a 30-minute deadline, you can accomplish more. Watch this video to see how you can do that in your own portrait!
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
30-Minute Acrylic Portrait: Thoughtful Man in White
Back to doing another 30-minute acrylic portrait, where I paint an Alla Prima portrait in about half an hour.
This can be a quick portrait study, or become an underpainting for a more refined portrait. I encourage you to try one! You can use this an example if you’d like.
In this video tutorial, I’ll be painting a middle-aged man wearing a white T-shirt. I love the strong contrast on his face, illuminated by the sunlight, the cast shadows on his clothing, and the thoughtful expression. Get your paint and brushes, and paint along with me!
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
How to Sketch Realistic Clothing Wrinkles
With the right techniques, you can create realistic clothing wrinkles.
In this free video tutorial, I’ll show you how to sketch realistic clothing wrinkles, continue reading to learn more.
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
AMAZING Way to SHIP a Painting
I’ll show you my amazing way to ship a painting that will definitely save time and money.
Ditch the cardboard and bubble wrap! Let me show you how to ship your painting in a way that will not only save you time and money, but will actually protect it better than the usual packaging.
DISCLAIMER: This method works only for unframed paintings 24″ x 30″ and smaller. Use at your own risk. I cannot be held responsible for damage to your artwork while shipping. I have personally used this method for over five years, and it works great.
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
How to Do Shading and Skin Tones on Small Faces
Having trouble shading and toning small faces?
It can be challenging to balance depth and realism without overwhelming delicate features.
Watch my free video tutorial on how to do shading and skin tones on small faces.
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
Painting Dark Shadows on Acrylic Grisaille
Let me show you how I do it in this real-time video tutorial. You can do this in your acrylic paintings too!
In Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro tenebrism technique, it’s vital to paint the dark values over your grisaille to build up the drama in the image. I finished painting titanium white over the raw umber dark ground and now it’s time to block in the darker values using ultramarine blue, raw umber dark, alizarine crimson, and burnt sienna.
Watch my free video tutorial to learn more on painting dark shadows on acrylic grisaille.
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!
How to Paint Hands in Your Acrylic Portrait
Hands are challenging to paint in any medium. In acrylic, because it is difficult to blend, that can be even more so!
In this brief video tutorial (taken from my in-progress footage of a commissioned portrait) let me show you how to do it. We’ll use the acrylic glazing technique, adding layer upon layer, to make it as easy as possible.
Watch my free tutorial to learn more about how to paint hands in your acrylic portrait.
- Sketching Your Painting Accurately
- Beginning a Pet Portrait in Acrylic
- The Mystery of Realism in Painting
- Apply A Burnt Sienna Glaze to a Portrait
- Learn How to Sketch a Portrait Freehand in 45 Minutes
- Adding highlights to your acrylic painting
- 5 Excellent Reasons to Use Aluminum Foil
- Paint Realistic Wrinkles in Acrylic
- Painting Clothing in an Acrylic Portrait
- Paint a Cloudy Sky Acrylic
- How to add Semi-Opaque Highlights
- How to Enhance the Contrast in Your Acrylic
- How to Add Glaze to Your Acrylic Painting
- Paint Realistic Reflections on Eyeglasses in an Acrylic Portrait
- Build Up Depth on Your Acrylic Portrait Backgrounds
- How Do You Do Layers With the Glazing Technique?
- Learn How to Paint Wrinkles in Acrylic
Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. Please share it with your friends and family. Let me know if you have any further questions. I’ll greatly help you.
If you’d like to learn more, sign up for my free email tips and video class today.
Learn How to Paint Acrylic Portraits With My Free Mini-Video Course!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this tutorial and watch the video. That means a lot to me. I hope you find it very helpful in your portrait painting.
Yours for Better Portraits,
P.S. Did you find this post helpful or encouraging? If so, send it on ahead! Let others know with the share buttons below. I’d love to hear your comments. Thank you so much! Also, do you have a question on acrylic portrait painting you’d like answered? Let me know, and I’d be happy to help!