Welcome to our Scale of Art Acrylic painting Course
Scale in art – one of the most important elements when deciding on your composition. An artist can choose to make an object larger or smaller, to emphasise importance or to give the viewer a different perspective. In this acrylics painting scale of art course we will focus on enlarging elements or a single subject. Taking inspiration from Georgia O’Keefe’s Flower Paintings and other artists. With over 6 hours of video instruction to guide you through a series of exercises, from drawing to finishing touches. Learn how to use a grid effectively, colour choices, drawing and detail on a largescale, and tackling a larger canvas without fear!
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 botanicals in acrylic.
Please use the following passwords to access your video content, please note they are case sensitive:
Project 1 Charcoal Drawing: Monochrome (Video length: 45 mins)
Negative Drawing: Highlight (Video length: 15 mins
Project 2 Magnolia : Spring (Video length: 80 mins)
Project 3 Tulips: Bloom (Video length: 75 mins)
Project 4 Palm Tree – Drawing: Leaf (Video length: 55 mins)
Palm Tree – Painting: Bark (Video length: 70 mins)
Basics of Acrylic: Apainting (Video length: 52 mins)
Acrylic Colour Mixing: Create (Video length: 45 mins)
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
Week 1
Charcoal Drawing
Large scale drawing in charcoal – for this first week, a loosening up exercise. Practise drawing big, using tone and generally getting a feel for the larger scale. Drawing with shadow.
Week 1 part 2
Negative Drawing using Highlights
Week 2
Magnolia – this week we will be working in a more impressionist style, practising light with colour. Drawing big with a brush, setting a background, colour mixing.
Week 3
Tulips – This week we will crop and scale up using a grid, practising drawing forms. Then use a tonal underpainting, adding strong colour in layers, and using an element of complementaries.
Week 4
Preparing for the final painting, I will demo preparing a canvas board with gesso primer, using a grid, preparatory paint sketches. If time a semi abstract painting exercise.
Week 5 video 1
The final painting! Using all the techniques learnt, create a composition of your choice, chose one of our beautiful flower photographs or even a real flower from the garden!
Week 5 video 2
The final painting! Using all the techniques learnt, create a composition of your choice, chose one of our beautiful flower photographs or even a real flower from the garden!
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.
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.
MATERIALS LIST
- Pencil – HB ( for sketching)
- Rubber and ruler – any ordinary pencil rubber and ruler
- Acrylic paper
- Acrylic paint
- Acrylic brushes
- Large A2 Paper
- Charcoal
- White pastel
- Board
- Masking tape
Downloadable Materials list, with useful info and facts on your chosen medium, suggestions of what to buy, and links to suggested suppliers. Please note thatthe links will take you to another company’s website, which is outside of DAC data control.
Please click below to download:
REFERENCE PHOTOS
We are very lucky to have these beautiful high quality flower images used in the projects – courtesy of Ali Chapman Photography. Please note these images are copyright and are for use as a study aid for this painting course only, and are to be used for no other reason. Please refer to the owners terms and conditions: www.alisonchapmandesign.photoshelter.com
To download images:
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.
