Painting With Acrylics 101
If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions below, you’re in the right space:
- How can I learn to paint?
- What supplies do I need to learn to paint?
- What is the best way to learn to paint?
- Can I learn to paint in online classes?
- Can I learn to paint if I believe I have no talent?
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HOW I Got Started
I have been painting with acrylics for over 30 years and painting as a fine artist for about 20 years. I paint landscape and floral paintings and every once in a while I throw in a painting of animals from our small farm or a seascape.
I love teaching beginning painters because I remember just how I felt when I finally decided I either had to learn how to do it, or figure out how to quit thinking about it all the time. I couldn’t look at anything without thinking, “If I were going to paint that, how would I get that shadow in or how would I put in the highlight I see?”
I found a two-day workshop, which, by the time I paid for the workshop, hotel, food, paint, brushes, canvases and other supplies, I spent over $1,500. BUT I came home with a beautiful painting and I knew I could do it. I began a 10-year journey painting 5-6 days a week, and reading and watching everything I could to become a better artist. As I like to tell my students, I put miles on my brushes.
I’m not going to sugar coat it and tell you you can become an artist overnight, but with systematic learning and deliberate practice you will begin to learn to aint and your skills will improve quickly.
Yes, painting is a skill and you can learn a skill, you can practice a skill and you can improve on your skill. Deliberate practice is the secret sauce. So let’s paint together soon.
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