When we hear the word Glazing in fine art, many of us will automatically think of Oil Paints. While oil paint is an excellent medium for glazing techniques, they are not the only painting medium that can be used. Acrylic paint can also be used with great effect.
Acrylic paints have come a long way since they were made commercially available back in the 1950’s. Water isn’t the only medium you can add to alter acrylic paints. There are now mediums available that you can add to acrylic paint to make them more transparent and transparency is what we are after in order to accomplish glazing with acrylics.
Listed below are various videos and articles that I discovered around the Web that talk about and demonstrate the acrylic glazing technique.
Video
Glazing with GOLDEN Acrylic Colors
Thanks To Golden Paints for sharing the above video! Watch more of their videos by visiting their YouTube Page Here.
Glazing Techniques with Acrylic Paint
Big thanks to Nancy Reyner for sharing the above video. Watch more of her videos over at her YouTube Page.
Acrylic Painting Techniques : First Steps in Acrylic Glazing
Acrylic Glazing Technique – Chicago Skyline by Adam Maslowski
Big thanks to Adam Maslowski for sharing the above video. View more of Adam’s videos over at his YouTube page.
Paul Taggart Painting Snippet – Glazing using Acrylics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu9lWo06Cvc
Big thanks to Paul Taggart for sharing the above video. View more of Paul’s videos over at his YouTube Page.
Articles
How to Create Glazes Using Acrylic Paints.
Learn Glazing Techniques with Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid and Heavy Body Acrylics
These are really very useful vidoes. Especially the first one clearly demonstrates the point. One would follow the principle of using transperant colors to create other hues by overlapping. This is similar to what the print media uses for multicolor printing… Many thanks for sharing..:-))
Shirish
thankyou, beautifully spoken and beautifully explained. Beautiful rose. Oh, how I hope to get to a quarter of your talent. Maggie
I’m using your page link in one of my blogposts at Pamelakbeer.com.
Thanks for the research. Much appreciated, really.
Pam
You are welcome and thanks for sharing my link!