Welcome to our Painting Animals Acrylics Course
In this course learn to paint animals, how to use composition, add atmosphere and life to your subject using a dark background and carefully placed detail. Build tone and use brush techniques to paint fur, feathers and other features. The class is a complete lesson, but follows on quite nicely from the drawing animals course to further your learning! Using the pre recorded video allows more time to really grasp the fundamentals of a subject, giving your painting the opportunity to progress to another level!
In addition you have access to our Acrylics reference videos, with lots of useful advice and info on materials and technique demos, and also high quality reference photos to work from. So whether you’re a beginner or more experienced, this complete course has everything you need to create beautiful paintings in acrylic.
Animal painting: Golden (Video length:127 mins)
Basics of acrylics : Apainting (Video length:52 mins)
Acrylics colour mixing : Create (Video Length:45 min)
Don’t forget to watch the video on full screen! Enter your password then click on the square icon(bottom right) to enter and exit full screen mode.
You may need to turn the sound on – roll over the top right of the screen and the sound button will appear.
We hope you enjoy your painting course! If you have any queries please contact us via email. We’d love to see your creations, feel free to send your paintings in to us to feature on our social media!
Many thanks and happy painting!
Jessie, Discovery Art Class
Painting Animals
Basics of acrylic painting
Knowing where to start can be confusing! This reference video has lots of useful information, explaining and demonstrating acrylic paint from the very beginning. Suitable for beginners or anyone wanting to brush up on their acrylic techniques.
Acrylics colour mixing
An introduction to colour mixing using acrylic paint. Guidance on choosing colours and how to use then effectively. Suitable for beginners or anyone wanting to brush up on their techniques.
MATERIALS
- Acrylic paper
- Acrylic paint
- Acrylic brushes
- Palette knife
- Board
- Masking tap
Downloadable Materials list – – a list of good quality materials and suggested suppliers. Please note that the links will take you to another company’s website, which is outside of DAC data control.
Please click below to download:
REFERENCE IMAGE
A copy of the final painting for reference, feel free to choose your own!
To download image:
Mac users: Hold ‘Control’ Key down, Click on Photo. Select ‘Save Image as’…, then ‘Desktop’ – Save.
PC users : Right click image, select ‘save image as’, choose location.
