Take your 8” x 10” or larger canvas and lay your grounds (mid-grey tone from Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, and Burnt Sienna). If you’d like a transcript of what Will says in the video, it is available for viewing or download here: Milk Jug Part One Closed Captions It’s also always helpful in each Part to read our text all the way through before you try to paint along.Īcrylic still life painting for beginners – Part 1 of 3 by willkempartschool Don’t forget, you can pause any time you need by clicking on the two vertical lines, then restart by clicking on the white triangle seen in the above illustration on the lower left. Then click on the same box after you are finished to minimize the video screen and return to the text. To make the video full screen, click the box in the lower right-hand corner: We always recommend watching the video in full-screen mode. We recommend for each Part, you first watch the video completely without painting-then paint the second time you watch the video. If you have a printer available, print out this picture in color to use as a reference. You can right click on the image above then choose “save as” to save it to your computer. Here is the image you will need for your painting: Remember, you can always come back to your canvas later. Don’t worry about how long it takes you-it took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel! Each part should take around an hour, so you can conveniently stop after each part.ĭon’t feel like you have to finish the painting in one session of course. This milk jug exercise is broken down into three parts. We just adore Will Kemp’s videos! He’s easy to follow and recommends the same beginning palette we do, so it will be good for those of you who only bought the three most important colors (Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna). If you have more than an hour to spare, then work as long as you feel comfortable! Introduction Take your time, don’t rush, and if you need to stop you can. We expect that each part of this lesson will take about one hour to complete, though this may vary from student to student depending on your individual pace. Part One: Prep, Sketch, And Initial Painting The topics we will be covering in this lesson: Still Life with Limited Palette by Will Kemp
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