Want to advance your technical skills?

Learn two different types of acrylic painting techniques

 Use these for many other subjects!!

Complete these two small studies!

Blending Methods 4 -  Indirect Application and Blocking In

Bell Pepper - Block & Blend as it is often called is also a combination of both indirect and direct painting methods. A majority of artists combine both paint applications to create a single painting. Initial layers are often blended directly, and after this first layer has dried, indirect applications of transparent colors are glazed over opaque layers to assist in the further creation of form. This style of blending also renders a painterly style of brushwork. In this simple design, artist Susan Abdella shows how she uses a blocking in blending method to create form.

Kings River Landscape - If you enjoy painting landscape the second study in this class explores the true Indirect Painting Method. Learn the paint application made popular by the Old Dutch Masters. Multiple layers of paint are applied to create form, depth and luminosity. Beginning with transparent applications of umber pigments, the artist creates the initial layer, next opaque layers are used to build form, and subsequent transparent layers are applied to create the local color of objects. Learn to apply transparent colored layers to create optical effects.