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This acrylic painting of a car driving through a rainy forest at night will make a perfectly moody and atmospheric addition to any wall in your home or a friend’s home. It’s also a great way to explore painting light and shadow and finer details! There’s a little something for everyone to learn here, and painting this will absolutely level up your acrylic painting skills. This will be the first of many masterclasses I am offering for free in written form on this blog. The free version covers everything you need to paint this landscape, but if you would like...

This colorful acrylic painting of a house covered in flowers is really vibrant and fun to paint! Although it looks complex, once I break it down for you in this step-by-step acrylic painting tutorial, you will see that it’s much simpler than it looks. This tutorial will particularly help you level up your understanding of layers and detailing, and how those two elements can make an acrylic painting come to life! So let’s start, as usual, with the materials list: Materials: Palette Palette knife (for mixing paints) Jar of water (to keep brushes wet) Artist sponge 4-Piece brush value pack...

This easy cloud painting tutorial will help you practice a fundamental skill for landscape painting. Clouds are sure to come up in one form or another in most of your acrylic landscape paintings, so now would be a great time to practice! I’ve had a lot of people in my DMs recently asking for cloud painting tips, so here they are! And because clouds can be any shape and size, it could be really fun to try this tutorial multiple times for extra practice. Let’s get started! You’ll need the following materials; follow the links to purchase these art supplies...

I’m back to revisiting one of my classic acrylic painting tutorials this week! This one will be a perfect addition to your toolkit of painting skills: we’re painting the ocean. If you paint landscapes at all, you’re bound to paint an ocean at some point, so this quick tutorial will give you some easy acrylic painting techniques that you can bring to all your seascape paintings. Let’s begin! You’ll need the following materials; follow the links to purchase these art supplies if needed. Materials: Palette Palette knife (for mixing paints) Jar of water (to keep brushes wet) 4-Piece brush value...

  Hi Friends! This week I’m revisiting another of my classic acrylic painting tutorials!  This one is a little different: I’m going into more detail to give you a specific acrylic painting technique for painting trees 🌲.  You’ll be able to bring this technique into pretty much any painting you do that involves trees, so it’s a great tool to have in your toolbelt 🔧! These may look intimidating, but I will break it down into six very easy steps and once you get the hang of it, it’ll become second NATURE to paint trees (no pun intended! 😜).  This...