fine art

>>2900465
>tips on painting in acrylics on canvas

Don't. Go for gouache (paper, your pic) or oil. Acrylic is for people who can't deal with the hassle of oil. The downside is it will never, ever look good, especially in person. Acrylic always looks like plastic-y shit.

Learn how to use mediums with acrylics. Some can thin the paints down or add extra gloss and oil to it to make it stay wet longer.

Different artists have different processes and styles while using acrylics, it's great for certain styles but not so much with others.

My main tip is to paint in a lot of layers and find find your process. Tone the canvas, underpainting with washes and toned values, form layer, lighting layer, detail layer, and keep building it up to the finished version.

You can always paint over your mistakes so don't be lazy, learn to correct yourself when you see an error, that's the best way to improve.

So yah, just keep experimenting until you find a process that works for you because everyones process is different. If there's a professional painter that works with acrylics that you really enjoy, learn their process, or at least take away from it.

>>2901310
Not actually true. Acrylic can look as good as oil if you know how to use it.

>>2901310

This is true.

Acrylics truly are the medium for bored housewives that have no skill whatsoever.

I hated oil until I used acrylic as an under-painting medium, made oils bearable. They're also more affordable, but I'll give gouache a try one day

Which kind of brushes I can use with acrylics? I'm painting with some kind of hard brushes, but I don't really like how hard they are. With oils I paint with soft brushes. Can I use those with acrylics?

Had a go today with some decent layering with thinned paint, creating an abstract piece with a lot of bright colours, going to take some time but I'll see how it goes tomorrow. Thanks for the advice
-OP

>>2901310
I don't know if this is true or not.