Find Creative Digital Resources for Art Educators with ART SPACE FOR ABSOLUTE ART BEGINNERS, at Teachers Pay Teachers, online.
– Subject Areas include: Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Other (Arts), [How to Paint With Acrylics]
– Suggested Grade Level: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, Adult Education, Homeschool
– Instructor Janet Bright is a visual artist with special interest and experience in painting and digital production.
“Art is for everyone. It is an essential contributor to the development of innovative, stimulating, healthy communities…Creating art teaches us to see the world from a new perspective & boosts creativity in all aspects of our lives.”
ART SPACE FOR ABSOLUTE ART BEGINNERS, at Teachers Pay Teachers, online: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Art-Space-For-Absolute-Art-Beginners
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Creating art teaches us to focus on details and requires that we pay careful attention to our surroundings. When we create, we see the world from a new perspective and boost creativity in all aspects of our lives.
How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner is an overview of the Absolute Basics you need to start painting today, with Clear Concept Descriptions, Photos, Diagrams, Illustrations, Terms & Definitions and Ideas to help you become the artist you’ve always dreamed you could be.
Read How to Paint with Acrylics HANDBOOK for the Absolute Beginner in conjunction with How to Paint with Acrylics LESSONS for the Absolute Beginner, also by J. Bright and get ready to create.
* You can read this book on any device; phone, laptop or tablet. All you need is the Kindle App. Get it here: for Android and here: for Apple
HANDBOOK Table of Contents
1. Welcome
2. There are Painters Who Transform the Sun..
3. Paint Basics
. Acrylic Paints
4. Paint Quality
. What’s Best for the Beginner
. The Value of High Quality Paints
. The Value of Student Quality Paints
5. Paint Brushes
. The Parts of a Brush
. Shapes & Uses
. Bristle & Handle Types
. Brushes for the Beginner
. Caring for Brushes
6. Painting Surfaces
7. Other Supplies for Painting
8. Space Requirements
9. Colour
. Colour from Light
. Colour Pigments
. Organizing Colour
. Relativity of Colour
. Terms & Definitions
10. Layout & Composition
. The Visual Weight of Colour
. The Visual Weight of Objects
. The Rule of Thirds
. Distance & 3-Dimensionality
. Terms & Definitions
#2 Awareness
Like meditation, creating art teaches you to focus on details & pay close attention to your environment
#1 Relaxation
Creating art provides distraction from the everyday & gives you a break from your usual thoughts and worries
We don’t expect ourselves to know how to bake a cake without a recipe.
So why do we expect ourselves to know how to paint without a recipe?
It is completely (definitely!) possible to Learn to Paint! by following a recipe and taking a class. No Experience Necessary.
How to Paint with Acrylics at acrylicmuse.com is an online painting course where it’s all about the basics; supplies, skills and creative thinking for the most beginner of beginners.
Get that first stroke of paint on the canvas today!
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Reason #4: No one has to know what classes you’re taking or at what pace you work.
Reason #3: No need to drive across town to start learning- What will you DO with all that extra time?