Acrylic Painting: Color, Texture and Value

Add success and excitement to your acrylic painting experience—Chris Cozen offers exercises that are based on finding solutions to common acrylic painting questions. Dive into tools and materials advice, tips to adjusting color and value, demos working with texture, tricks to unifying a painting and more. Have fun experimenting with your acrylic paints today! (Check out the Acrylic Solutions book by Chris Cozen & Julie Pritchard, for supporting demonstrations and more fun ways to expand your acrylic techniques.)

• Innovative methods for exciting paintings
• Experiment with acrylic mediums and specialty colors
• 68 minutes of premier art instruction 

Preview: 
 
Develop and play with your paints as you use drips and drops of color to give structure, highlighted texture for pop. and glazes of gritty color to alter the mood.

Bio/Intro: 

Chris Cozen is a member of the Working Artist Program for Golden Artist Colors, Inc. She lectures and teaches throughout Southern California and is the author of several books on acrylic painting techniques. With a background in education Chris teaches workshops and classes to artists with a full range of experience. Visit chriscozenartist.com for more information.

MATERIALS: Measuring Tools
An upright slender object that you can position to allow your eye to be the same distance each time
Clear acrylic plates (or thread and matboard)
Composing L’s (mat board corners)
Compass
Cone of vision tool 
Gridded surface
Measure stick
Measuring tape
Plumb line
Protractor
Sharpie markers (blue, red and black)
Straightedge
Stylus
Triangle rulers
T-Square


Other 
Correction fluid
Drawing paper
Eraser
Mechanical pencils
Push pins