Julie Gilbert Pollard | Runtime (83 min)
Unleash your inner landscape artist and learn to paint a snowy landscape using fun acrylic painting techniques to infuse your painting with vibrant color! Follow along with Julie Gilbert Pollard as she paints a snowy creek scene in acrylic from start to finish, exploring underpainting, color harmony, shape making, and how to combine lost and found edges to achieve a loose, painterly quality in your work. You’ll see stunning results in your wintery landscape paintings.
FEATURES
- Step-by-step instruction to create a loose landscape in acrylic
- Acrylic lessons on color mixing, brushwork, values and more
- How to paint snow, water, reflections & trees
- Landscape painting techniques
- Quick tips to loosen up your landscape paintings with gesture to capture the rhythm of the subject, bold brushwork and more
- Learn how to enhance reality with exciting color and value
In this acrylic painting lesson, there will be several points of emphasis:
- Begin with semi-monochromatic under-painting to establish the dark value pattern, similar to a grisaille or bistre
- Use a palette of colors to create harmony, unity and ease of color and value mixing
- Practice squinting to see the large tree and brush shapes and allowing them to merge rather than drawing them separately
- Combine lost with found edges to maintain a loose, painterly quality
- Introduction to painting water reflections
- Use spatter to represent snow flurries
MATERIALS:
Surface
- 24x18 sheet of Yes! multi-media canvas (primed for watercolor)
- 18x24 sheet of “Gator Board” onto which the canvas is stapled
Fluid Acrylics (GOLDEN Artist Colors)
- Nickel Azo Yellow
- Transparent Pyrrole Orange
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Dioxazine Purple
- Cerulean Blue Deep
Heavy Body Acrylics (Master’s Touch)
- Milky White
- Dark Titanium White
- Naples Yellow
- Flesh
Brushes
- Royal B 2 Sumi brush
- ½” Aquarelle (no particular brand)
- ¾” Aquarelle (no particular brand)
- 1” Aquarelle (no particular brand)
- 1½” Aquarelle (no particular brand)
- ½” notched flat (no particular brand)
Other
- Masterson “sta-wet palette”
- One large container of water with insert for cleaning brushes
- Paper towels
- Box of pop-up facial tissue
- White towel
- Sponge in tray
- Hand-held hair dyer
- Masking Fluid (with old brush or palette knife for application)
- 1” trowel-type palette knife
- Gloss Fluid Glazing Medium or Airbrush Medium (to thin paint as necessary)
- Retarder Medium (to lengthen dry time as necessary)
- Watercolors, a scrap piece of watercolor paper, and a water-soluble ink pen (for doing a quick study of your subject)
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Jacqueline 2/10/2019
Anita 12/5/2018
Anita 12/20/2017
Raihana 2/2/2017
Eva 1/24/2017
Beautiful, beautiful paintings! And such a wonderful teacher! Thank you Julie.
Loredana 9/28/2016
Very informative, however it would be much more helpful if it included the reference photo so the viewer can follow along.
Stephanie 2/15/2015
What a wonderful video for painting with acrylic! Julie's use of color as value, negative painting techniques and attention to composition also make this video useful for painting in any medium, not just acrylic.
Lynda 12/14/2014
I absolutely loved this painting for its simplicity! The preview didn't do it justice.
It was a good exercise in understanding tonal value. I had to hold my breath sometimes when Julie painted over what I thought was the finished product only to find that it really enhanced the painting. But this is the beauty of acrylics and I am just beginning to understand the versatility of the medium.
I also love the way she uses her brushes in that light delicate way making the brush do the work. Also found it amazing sometimes that just a few strokes here and there brought the whole painting to life!
Wanda 8/10/2014
I love the way that Julie saved the details for last, and then concentrated those details (sharper, thinner lines and juxtaposing smaller light-against-dark shapes) in the base of the main small tree on the other side of the river bank to make that area even more dramatic. She also does a very nice job subtly balancing the colors she was mixing & using in other parts of her painting that gave her overall painting color harmony and unity. Well done!
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