Plein Air Acrylic Painting Techniques - Part 1 with Shirley Peters | Colour In Your Life

Plein Air Acrylic Painting Techniques - learn how to paint a dam with Shirley Peters, en plein air acrylic painting techniques, demonstration and tutorial for beginners or artists of all ages and skills. In this three-part series from Shirley, discover acrylic plain air painting techniques as Shirley demonstrates her unique approach to painting Australian bush and a full dam. In Part 1 follow along with Shirley’s process as she blocks in her plein air scene, using some beautiful, unexpected colours. Her process for blocking in is deliberate yet spontaneous and expressive, laying the groundwork for later gorgeous detail!

For Part 2, click here:
   • Plein Air Acrylic Painting Techniques - Pa...  

Part 3 coming 14th August!

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From the artist Shirley Peters:

In this acrylic video I’m painting a plein air view from my studio back door. It is a rainy overcast day, and the trees are going wild with the strong wind. But I enjoyed finding colour in the dull light. I hope you like it.

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Website: http://www.shirleypeters.com
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My materials links are not always the same brands that I am using, but these products are close. (Often my links go to Australian sites, so you might have to search for similar on your local Amazon or art supply shop.)
Binder Medium by Chromacryl
http://www.craftonline.com.au

BRUSHES
Pack of brushes various sizes
https://amzn.to/36Hc80N

Wide Brushes
https://amzn.to/2VfksAA

Quality Rigger: Art Spectrum Pure Sable Liner size 2 or 4
https://jacksons.com.au/product/11869

Rigger from Amazon
https://amzn.to/3eJGIde

Canvas
This is a homemade canvas. I will publish a video of making and stretching a canvas soon.
Amazon sell cheap canvases, as do local art shops and some hardware stores.
Good quality canvases can be bought from art suppliers.

PAINTS
My paints are Atelier Interactive Artists Acrylics.
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Arylamide Yellow Deep
Yellow Oxide
Transparent Perinone Orange
Red
Quinacridone Magenta
Quinacridone Red Violet
Transparent Umber (Matisse brand)
Burnt Sienna
Burnet Umber French Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Turquoise Light
Dioxazine Purple
Lamp Black

Other:
Atelier Binder Medium

Here is a link to a W+N set that you might like to start with:
https://www.winsornewton.com/au/sets-...

Small Plastic Fixed Compartment Box
https://amzn.to/2Nvn2hu
Larger ones (like mine in this video) are sometimes found in hardware, or fish tackle shops.

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