How to Paint With Acrylics
~ Getting Started ~

Perhaps second only to watercolors, more and more people want to find out how to paint with acrylics, as an introduction to painting.

It has many advantages - no smell, it dries fast and it's easily cleaned up with water. Acrylics is also a forgiving painting medium, so it has many attractions for the newcomer.

In these acrylic painting tutorials we'll look at what you need to get started and how to quickly produce some simple but effective paintings on a wide variety of surfaces - and not just with paint brushes either!


Getting Started



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This video will go through some of the materials you need - brushes, paints and so on - oh yes, and how to easily make an acrylics paint palette at virtually no cost!

So press the big blue button and take yourself into the versatile world of acrylic painting....

After you've watched this 'Getting Started' video, see this how to paint with acrylics video series. In it, I paint a lovely, peaceful harbour scene using many of the materials and techniques decribed in here...




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see the main acrylics painting section




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