Acrylic Painting Techniques & Art

Join the millions of artists who are experimenting with acrylic art! Discover inspiration and acrylic painting techniques that will help you create beautiful acrylic paintings, whether you’re just getting started or you’d like to add to your painting skills.

“My heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils” | A Donna Dewberry Art Lesson

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Don’t miss this free painting demo by Donna Dewberry: How to Paint a Daffodil Using the One-Stroke Painting Method. Full Article

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Go for the Glow! | Luminescent Acrylic Paints and Tom Bacher

New York City painting by Tom Bacher in daylight

Using luminescent acrylic paints, Tom Bacher paints landscapes and portraits with spectacular lighting effects. He combines different brands of fluorescent and phosphorescent paints to achieve the look he wants for various elements in paintings that change in color and composition over time. Full Article

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Sandrine Pelissier: Newspaper Collage and Painting Demo

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See a painting demo by mixed media artist Sandrine Pelissier, showing how she created her newspaper collage, acrylic & ink piece, Recycling Life, a winner in The Artist’s Magazine’s 2013 All Media Art Competition. Full Article

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Our May 2013 Artist of the Month | Paul Chapman and his Acrylic Painting

A Quick Brush Up, acrylic painting, Paul Chapman

Congratulations to artist Paul Chapman,a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s Annual Art Competition. Read about his acrylic self-portrait, A Quick Brush Up. Full Article

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Great Acrylic Painting Techniques With Chris Cozen

Chris Cozen acrylic painting instruction

Chris Cozen is a not only a great artist, but a great instructor, too! See how she creates great abstract acrylic paintings with a lot of acrylic painting techniques that are so easy to do yourself, you’ll be blown away. … Full Article

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Why Sometimes Work Feels Like Play

Acrylic Revolution by Nancy Reyner

Sometimes I have a really hard time focusing on my job. Like this morning…I set out to write about Nancy Reyner’s Acrylic Revolution, which is on sale. First I wanted to get my hands on a copy, so I asked around the office to see where I could find one. Moments later, a colleague of mine dropped it off at my desk when I had stepped away for a moment to grab a yogurt. When I returned, there it was, on my seat… Full Article

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New Acrylic Paint | An Acrylic Test by Abstract Artist Mark Mehaffey

Heavy Body acrylic from Holbein

Acrylic, Inside and Out There’s more than meets the eye in the new Holbein Heavy Body Artist Acrylic paint. By Mark Mehaffey The following originally appeared in The Artist’s Magazine (May 2013). Click here to download the digital issue and … Full Article

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All the Art eBooks You Could Want and a Few You Didn’t Know You Needed

Acrylic Solutions

The only thing better than buying one hardcover book at $19.99 or less is having access to a bunch of books at the same price! Did you know that you can access a lot of our books through our eBook … Full Article

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The Acrylic Difference by Nancy Hagin

Acrylic Still Life painting by Nancy Hagin

Nancy Hagin’s acrylic and watercolor paintings explore color symmetries and repeating patterns to deconstruct familiar objects into harmonious planes of color. In this free excerpt from The Artist’s Magazine (March 2013), she shares tips for acrylic painting. Full Article

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Enter Your Acrylic Art Today

Acrylic Works art competition

There’s still time to be a part of AcrylicWorks: The Best of Acrylic Painting, North Light Books’ first annual hardbound showcase of the best in contemporary acrylic! Full Article

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