PART 1 - Acrylic painting Foundations & Technique Development

This live, beginner-friendly class is designed to build a strong technical foundation in acrylic painting. Instead of simply following a painting tutorial, you’ll understand how acrylic behaves and learn to control the medium through structured demonstrations, guided exercises, and practical studies. The class is suitable for anyone who wants to understand acrylics from the basics and develop confident, controlled painting skills.

In this class, you’ll learn:

1. Acrylic Fundamentals — Paint composition, drying behaviour, opacity, transparency, and working properties.

2. Materials & Tools — Paint types, brushes, surfaces, palettes, and essential workspace setup.

3. Paint Control — Consistency, dilution, brush loading, pressure, angle, and paint release.

4. Acrylic Mediums — Glazing, gel, matte, gloss, and slow-drying mediums, including when and why to use them.

5. Colour Theory — Hue, value, saturation, temperature, and colour relationships.

6. Colour Mixing — Secondary, tertiary, muted, and neutral colours while avoiding muddy mixtures.

7. Brush Techniques — Washes, blending, layering, dry brushing, scumbling, stippling, and directional strokes.

8. Value & Form — Light, shadow, highlights, reflected light, and cast shadows.

9. Edges & Texture — Hard, soft, lost and found edges, and adapting brushwork to different surfaces.

10. Practical Exercises — Apply each concept through structured guided studies rather than theory alone.

By the end of Part 1, you’ll have the technical understanding and practical foundation needed to work with acrylic paint more confidently and intentionally. You’ll be prepared to use these skills to create complete artworks in Part 2.