Acrylic Painting Tutorial. ‘Keeping It Loose’
‘Keeping it loose’
In this tutorial, I’ll cover several techniques used to create an expressive painting. Also, I’ll give you some insight on how I use photographs to produce a studio painting. This tutorial is packed full of useful content that will assist in freeing up your paintings. Thanks for viewing and be sure to leave a comment on how this tutorial helped your art.
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If you have any suggestions for future tutorial topics, please feel free to leave them in the comment box. I would love to hear from you.
Nevaeh
Your “Keeping it Loose” tutorial is so helpful. I have watched it several times and can’t wait to see more of these.
Debbie Rank
Oh my goodness Robert, I enjoyed tremendously listening to your personal insight, philosophy and attitude about approaching a painting! Much good advice for me, right from the start, such as 2 parts believable 1 part imperfect. I like your attitude about reject paintings (and would like to be more like that!).
How much time do you spend painting every day? Are you always this fast?
Robert Joyner
Navaeh and Debbie,
Thanks for commenting.
It hard to say how much time I spend per day, but I would guess about 20 hours per week. I spend about the same amount of time marketing, blogging and packing/shipping. It works great now. I never feel burned out at the easel and I stay in tune with making/cropping pics and vids.
I’ll keep them coming. I’m going to invest in a HiDef camera so that the quality is better and I’ll use a second camera so you can see what’s happening on the palette.
Nevaeh
This is so great of you, Robert. Not a lot of artists out there willing to share their methods with others. I did my first painting today based on the things that I have learned from your tutorials and all I can say is, Wow! Certainly not as beautiful as your paintings, but a one hundred percent improvement in my art! Thanks again!
Robert Joyner
Nevaeh,
Thanks fantastic! So glad you could benefit from the tutorials. Look for more soon!
Toula
Dear Robert:you know by now that I am a huge fan and admirer of your work.I would love to see your pallette colors before you start(or tell us the colors)and how you mix to get the shades which are fantastic.You work really fast but precise and the colors don’t get muddy.Do they dry first before you apply top layer?
Are dry pastels good to use on top of acrylic or oil ones better?
Thank you fro your help,Toula
Robert Joyner
Hi Toula!
I’ll try to incorporate more information about my palette in upcoming videos. I would say most of the layers dry before others are added. This is primarily because acrylics dry so fast and not necessarily because it’s what I want to do intentionally. I prefer artist grade crayons and oil pastels, so I can’t speak on dry pastels. I’ve avoided those because they are so messy. Hope this helps. Happy painting!
toula
Thank you very much for your reply!Looking forward to seeing more videos!It is amazing that you are a self taught artist making these masterpieces so easily!(easy for you, not us!)
Best Regards,Toula
Robert Joyner
Thanks Toula! I should have a new video this week so stay tuned.