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16 Acrylic Painting Techniques: The Most Complete Video Guide to Acrylic Painting Available! [VHS]

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After a lifelong fascination with art and no opportunity to test my artistic abilities, I decided to try this video. I expected something entirely different but followed each project carefully.I learned a lot.

Rather than teaching a particular project that ends up as a landscape or still life, this video teaches techniques. I didn't go out and buy the list of stuff on the back of the case -- but I did use items I had on hand, like sandpaper and q-tips. I also used the children's watercolor brushes and a slightly different-sized canvas but in all it worked out pretty well.

I learned a bunch of techniques from collages to finger painting to stenciling and stamping. The parts on glazing and on painted gel relief gave me some great ideas on how to get certain affects in other projects.

I admit to being a little disappointed at first because the way I interpreted the title led me to expect to learn to create a painting. My finished product was a painting, all right, but not exactly what I had in mind! However, when one doesn't know anything about a subject, one can't help but benefit from an overview of techniques like this video provides. I would definitely recommend it to the novice painter.

Besides, it was fun!

This is a must have for anyone who wants to get paint to behave the way you want it to. This is the best video on painting techniques, covering glazing, scumbling, gradations, mixed media and many other ways to apply paint. If you are an artist or want to learn more about how paint behaves and the possibilities of what you can do with acrylic paint, get this video. You can refer back to the various techniques again and again. This is not a video on how to paint trees or people, or flowers. This is a video on how to get paint to do what you want it to do, when you want to do it. As a creative director and an artist this video has helped me gain more control over the medium of acrylic painting.

This is a must have for anyone who wants to get paint to behave the way you want it to. This is the best video on painting techniques, covering glazing, scumbling, gradations, mixed media and many other ways to apply paint. If you are an artist or want to learn more about how paint behaves and the possibilities of what you can do with acrylic paint, get this video. You can refer back to the various techniques again and again. This is not a video on how to paint trees or people, or flowers. This is a video on how to get paint to do what you want it to do, when you want to do it. As a creative director and an artist this video has helped me gain more control over the medium of acrylic painting.

I love this video! For my high school art class, the sequential demonstrations could be pulled and used as individual exercises. Or, the video could be the basis of a full curriculum in acrylic painting. Students should have success at a very early level because these abstract exercises do not require specific drawing skills. Jackie demonstrates quality skill-building exercises which can be watched by individuals or by the whole class. And, unlike live demonstrations, the students will all be able to see more clearly on the video screen, and replay it as many times as necessary.

Jackie is an excellent teacher. I learned more about acrylic materials and painting techniques in her workshop than in all my college classes put together. And now in this video, she's created a learning opportunity that is the equivalent of being in her studio.

If your'e just wanting to watch a painting being painted , forget it! This is technique video. If your'e new to acrylics its a must. It instructs you on all the mediums you can use to inhance your art and the techniques to use them. Even if you have been painting with acrylics, there are little tricks and techniques to be learned.

This is a great video. You'll notice on the cover there are 16 squares. This is the project that is demonstrated in the video. In each of the squares, a different technique is demonstrated as a sort of mini-project. What you end up getting is a sampler of various ways to handle acrylic paint, with techniques that can be combined. Find your favorite way(s) of working! These basic techniques offer quite a range of possibilities.

The excercise itself is very easy. This video is appropriate for beginners.

I am an artist/painter of 20 years and I got a lot out of this video. Sometimes a little technique can give you your own break through!

Well done. It sparked my interest in painting again. Not only that, my husband, who has never considered himself 'artistic,' has also been inspired by this video and now wants to try painting with acrylics.

This book is great for the beginning acrylic painter...but useless for the seasoned one. After painting in acrylic for a space of time, we learn all that was in this book. Of course that's probably true of every medium.