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How to Use Cooler Colors in Your Acrylic Portrait
What colors do you use for shadows in your acrylic portrait?
Cooler colors really can help to add the realism you are aiming for. In this brief tutorial video, using a commissioned portrait as an example, I’ll show you what colors to mix and why.
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Read more about how to paint a portrait that you can surely be proud of!
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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,
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Learn Acrylic Portrait Painting With Me in Person!
If you’d like the chance to do acrylic portrait painting with me in person, I’ll be teaching a step-by-step workshop this summer in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina…
Paint a Realistic Acrylic Portrait You Can Be Proud Of with Matt Philleo
(Thursday-Saturday, 3 Day)
August 26-30, 2020
Ridgecrest Conference Center
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Learn more below…
I’d love to have you there and be able to teach you in person!
Yours for Better Portraits,
Let me know if you have any questions below in the comments or email me from the contact page.
Paint an Acrylic Portrait With Me in 2019!
Would you like to learn portrait painting from me in person?
I’d like to let you know that I’ll be teaching at the Chippewa Valley Cultural Association (Heyde Center for the Arts, Chippewa Falls, WI) on March 12-13, 10:30am-3:30pm, a two-day intensive acrylic portrait painting workshop. The class size is limited to 10 people to make sure I can give each student feedback and individual instruction.
Learn more/ register by clicking the image below…
Learn how to paint realistic acrylic portraits with a two-day intensive , held at the Heyde Center in Chippewa Falls, WI workshop by artist Matt Philleo on March 12-13, 10:30-3:30pm
If you live or will be in the St. Paul/ Minneapolis-Eau Claire, WI area around that time and would like to learn how to paint with me, I would love to see you then!
Or maybe you know someone that may be interested. Could you please let them know about this? Thank you so much! Let me know if you have any questions.
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!
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