Chris Cozen | Runtime (100 min)
Explore the fundamentals of acrylic color and get ready to enhance your painting skills with Chris Cozen in this insightful video instruction!
Follow along as she demonstrates an array of exciting acrylic techniques on a single surface, demonstrating how they can work together to create a dynamic painting with vibrant colors that appear to pop off the page.
From mixing and mingling opaques and transparents to experimenting with specialty paints for some metallic magic, you’ll learn how to make the most of your pigments and strengthen your commitment to process. You’ll love where your acrylics can take you!
Some of the acrylic techniques you’ll learn include:
- The fundamentals of transparent and opaque acrylics, and the numerous ways they can work together
- How to create multiple color wheels to understand acrylic pigments and just what your colors can do
- Multiple ways to experiment with acrylics to make a vast array of visually complex tints, tones, and shades
- Tips for mixing neutrals to bring balance to your painting
Exploring Acrylic: 10 Color Essentials
MATERIALS
Surface
- Acrylic paper
- Watercolor paper
- Bristol paper
Paints (variety of colors)
- Fluid acrylics
- High Flow acrylics
- Ultramarine Blue
- Cerulean Blue
- Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold
- Quinacridone Red
- Phthalo Blue (red shade)
- Nickel Azo Yellow
- Alizarin Crimson
- Hansa Yellow
- Titan Buff
- Titanium White
- Napthol Red Light
- Red Oxide
- Bone Black
- Carbon Black
- Zinc white
- Iridescent Gold Deep
- Interference Gold
- Micaceous Iron Oxide
- Raw pigment – Ultramarine Blue (for It’s All Paint chapter)
- Craft paint – Marigold (for It’s All Paint chapter)
- Student grade – primary yellow (for It’s All Paint chapter)
Brushes and Tools
- Brushes in a variety of shapes and sizes
- Catalyst tool
Other
- Polymer Medium (Gloss)
- Acrylic Glazing Liquid
- Matte medium
- Stencils
- Cosmetic sponges
- Rags
- Water spray bottle
- Water container
- Pencil
- Permanent marker
- Sharp, mark-making tool (Chris uses a knitting needle)
Reviews
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Joyce 10/16/2018
A great explanation on color mixing. One of the best instructors. Thank you.
Starr 8/29/2018
Anita 1/13/2018
Marcia 11/18/2017
Candy 11/4/2017
I am beconing redundant, but Chris is a great teacher. If you are familiar with color blending and know all about the color wheel, this video might not be for you.
Jane 10/20/2017
Tremendously helpful! Excellent demonstration and explanation of mediums and their properties, and uses! I bought your books as a reference!
Kelly 10/1/2017
Thank you much. I'm learning more than I could have imagined about color.
Diana 10/1/2017
Linda 9/1/2017
Jacqueline 8/27/2017
Linda 8/26/2017
Patrizia 5/15/2017
Dorothy 5/4/2017
Marie 5/3/2017
Sylvie 4/16/2017
One more again. It's very important for me to see this vidéo and I go now to take my piece of paper and colours for play with my paint . Merci Chris . C'est toujours un très grand plaisir de vous suivre . Sylvie
Brandy 4/8/2017
Patricia 4/7/2017
DONNA 4/3/2017
Joyce 3/22/2017
Charlotte 3/15/2017
Jill 3/14/2017
Kathy 3/5/2017
Laura 2/28/2017
Absolutely fantastic class. I'll be re-watching this video many times.
Cecelia 2/13/2017
Learned a lot of information about color mixing. Great teacher!!!
Helen 2/12/2017
Thomas 2/11/2017
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