#Liquitex Basic Acrylics

[fineartsupplies]

Exploring Different Application Techniques with Liquitex Acrylics

Painting is a passionate activity for many individuals. It is particularly thrilling because there are loads of techniques to explore while expressing your creativity. Acrylic paints are one of the most beloved mediums for artists and beginners alike. Now, if you are one of the artists eager to create stunning artworks, you have arrived at the right destination. 

To make your painting experience memorable while allowing a continuous growth path here is a list of techniques you can confidently experiment with using Liquitex Acrylic Paints. These techniques will help you evolve into a skilled and confident artist. 

Exploring Brush Application Techniques

When it comes to applying Liquitex Basic Acrylics, brushes are your trusty companions. Liquitex acrylics offer a diverse range of brush techniques, from classic oil painting strokes to more modern and experimental styles. Here's a glimpse of what you can explore:

Stippling: 

Stippling is like creating art with tiny dots. Use your brush to craft a pattern of dots on the canvas. By varying the pressure and spacing of your dots, you can craft captivating textures and shades that add intrigue to your artwork.

Impasto:

For those who love texture and dimension, load your brush with undiluted paint and apply it generously onto the canvas. Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics are your go-to for crafting rich, textured impasto effects that truly stand out.

Dry Brushing: 

Dip your brush into the paint and remove most of it on a paper towel. With this dry brush, you'll lightly sweep over the canvas surface, creating textured, dry-brush effects that add depth and character.

Master your palette knives techniques with Liquitex acrylics

Palette knives are like magic wands for acrylic artists, offering creative opportunities. Here's how you can make the most of them with Liquitex acrylics:

Sgraffito: 

This technique uses a palette knife to scratch or etch into the surface of your acrylic paint. This allows you to reveal underlying layers, create intricate patterns, and add a touch of mystery to your artwork.

Scraping: 

With a palette knife, embrace the art of scraping. By gently dragging the knife across the canvas, you can remove layers of paint, uncover hidden colours, and produce captivating textures and visual contrasts.

Double Loading: 

Experiment with double loading, a technique where you apply two different colours of Liquitex acrylics to the palette knife's blade. As you spread this colourful blend onto your canvas, you'll create harmonious gradients and transitions in your artwork.

Use These Pouring and Dripping Techniques with Liquitex Acrylic Paints

Pouring: 

Acrylic pouring is a mesmerizing technique that involves mixing Liquitex Acrylic Mediums with a pouring medium to create a fluid oasis. Pour the mixture onto your canvas and tilt it to create mesmerizing patterns and gradients.

Dripping: 

For a fascinating twist, experiment with dripping isopropyl alcohol into your wet acrylic paint. This technique creates unpredictable and beautiful textures as the alcohol interacts with the acrylics, resulting in unique and dynamic effects.

You Can Also Try Printmaking and Stamping with Liquitex Acrylics

Liquitex Acrylic Paints can be used for printmaking and stamping, offering a unique way to create repetitive patterns and textures:

Stamping: 

Dip objects like sponges, leaves, or handmade stamps into Liquitex acrylics and press them onto your canvas or paper. This technique allows for endless possibilities in texture and design.

Monoprinting: 

Apply a layer of acrylic paint to a smooth surface, then press it onto paper. Liquitex Basics Acrylics are a great choice for this technique due to their fluid consistency.

Witness the Miracle of layering and blending techniques.

Achieving depth and dimension in your artwork is made easier with Liquitex acrylics:

Layering: 

Allow each layer to dry before adding another to prevent colours from mixing. This technique is perfect for creating complex, multi-dimensional compositions.

Wet-on-Wet Blending: 

Blend wet layers of paint directly on your canvas to create seamless transitions between colours. The slow-drying properties of Liquitex Slow-Dry Blending Fluid can be particularly helpful for this technique.

With the help of the above techniques, you can begin using Liquitex Acrylics in your artwork regardless of whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist. If you are searching for a one-stop destination to get premium-grade paints from brands like Liquitex, visit Canvazo to end your effort. Offering a top quality collection of Liquitex acrylics, they assure of enhancing your art work and skill set with valuable experience. Get in touch with your inner creativity and start crafting your dream masterpiece with the help of high-quality tools from Canvazo today!

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

This is the most expensive paint I own now

[dubious-artwork]

I painted this last year; sometime in late spring, I think? Wanted to paint something silly, and earthworms with those large googly eyes came to mind, sorta!

[derynstarling]

Making Taquito the Boa my first art post on my new Tumblr. Cheers to new beginnings (hopefully). It's been a decade since I used Tumblr and honestly, I can't remember why I left in the first place.

Taquito was a painting made for my friend Kelsey. Tools: Faber castell ink markers, liquitex basics, artist's loft acrylics, and jelly roll pens. 2022

[zemi-noelle-art]

Your LPS customs are soooo amazing!! Like genuinely so inspiring 😭 I wanna get into it but I have no idea how!!

Thank you so much!!! that really means a lot! And I'm really honored to hear I've been inspiring people with my work<3 I can provide some tips on starting the hobby if that helps! this'll be based on my own experience though of course! I can firstly say that getting into LPS customizing was pretty simple for me, because I already had most of the supplies I use for other projects, and it was only a matter of getting the bases themselves to paint on. Of course I have the LPS I grew up with but I didn't want to ruin those lol. I use those blank bootleg LPS bases they sell on amazon. You can also use authentic LPS but I'd recommend making sure you're not painting over a rare one like a big 5 or Savannah Reed first lol. A good starting point is to draft out the design you want on paper/digitally to see what kind of custom you want to make. for me I use digital templates and paint over them in my art program. Templesta on DeviantArt has some really good ones! For paint I use acrylic. Get a teeny tiny paintbrush for detail work along with a couple other sizes as well and those should be all the basic supplies you need to start! You can also get more complex with it and use chalk pastels, water color pencils and glitters too. Get creative! see what supplies you can use to take your customs to the next level. As a tip, make sure to water down your paint and do multiple thin layers. Patience is key because that paint is not gonna want to stick to the base at first. A lot of the actual painting process does come down to practice and a steady hand.

If you want to seal your customs which isn't necessary but gives them a nice finish, I recommend Liquitex high gloss varnish to seal the eyes. There are some good matte varnish sprays out there but I recommend doing your own research on those, as they can be resin based and therefore need a bit of caution and prep to handle. I personally use Mister Super Clear matte spray to seal the base of the custom, and I always spray outside with gloves and a respirator.

And though I have done sculpting I don't consider myself well versed enough to recommend supplies for clay but I've heard Green Stuff and Apoxie sculpt are good clays to use, but be sure to do your own research on those as well.

The monster high doll customization community is a good place to look for material research! A lot of the process of the face-up is pretty similar to painting LPS. That's actually what got me into customizing in the first place; I just watched a bunch of Dollightful, Enchanterium, and Moonlight Jewel's videos and said to myself "Wait a minute, I could do this with LPS!" I also of course recommend watching other LPS customizer's videos to see the process of how they make their customs, and show them some support as well! Pumpkinscustoms Is a really big inspiration for me and HelloStudios, Mr. Crazy Ray and LPSCobalt have really good videos on making customs.

And once again, if you don't wanna dive right in you can just draw them, whether using a template or not to see if you like the process and the design! You can even make a bunch of designs digitally and once you feel ready to tackle a real custom, start there! ahaha I didn't know I'd be writing a whole-ass Essay but I hope all this helps!! Thank you for enjoying my work!

[stranded-ziggy]

Ziggy's Beginner Oil Painting Tips (Part 1)

Despite being far from a master oil painter, I'd like to do what I can to try and make this amazing medium easier to access for all artists in the wake of AI, NFTs and the current culture of art being seen as "content" rather than something timeless.

I'm far from a spiritual person in any sense, but there is something completely unique about holding an oil painting you created in your own hands. I've yet to be lucky enough to see any of the old master's paintings in person so all I've seen are my own but despite my inexperience there's a depth to my oil paintings that my digital art can't begin to compare with.

Disclaimer: I take a very relaxed approach to oil painting and have never sold a painting before nor do I have any intention to start selling them any time soon so if you want to create museum quality pieces this is not the guide for you.

This is a guide to help people start experimenting with oil paints and putting paint to paper/canvas.

Contents:

Paints

Gesso

Mediums

Paints

I'm primarily a portrait painter so the palletes I recommend will mostly be useful for painting people.

My favourite pallete:

Titanium white

Yellow ochre

Dusty pink (optional, I just got it for quickly mixing skin tones but burnt sienna and white will do the same; provide a base which you can then cool down/darken/hue shift as you want

Vermillion hue

Burnt sienna

Burnt umber

ultramarine blue

Basically it's the Zorn pallete with a bit of customization, but that means if you want some tips for painting with this pallete you can just search "painting with the zorn pallete" and find a lot of helpful resources.

(Note: You may note there is no lamp black or Ivory black, that is because I prefer to mix burnt umber and ultramarine blue. This dries faster in my experience and also lets me cool it down or warm it up as I want.)

Budget pallete:

Titanium white

Yellow ochre

Vermillion hue

Alizarin crimson

Viridian hue

(Note: in this pallete alizarin crimson and viridian hue can be used to mix a grey/black)

Gesso

Despite my laziness in nearly all aspects of life I do like to gesso my painting surfaces even when they are pre-primed (if you are using a surface that hasn't been primed already such as paper priming is very important).

Usually I buy packs of cheap canvases for around $6 AUD so I feel as though the least I can do is add a few extra layers of gesso to them to help stop the paint from sinking right in and beginning to look dull and matte.

Honestly I don't have a brand to recommend, I have used the liquitex gesso and it's good but despite paying a lot for it I only had enough for a few canvases so for the most part I use the type you can get at craft stores for less than $10, so I say go for whatever is within your budget.

Mediums

I avoid solvents completely in my painting, sacrificing my health any more than I already do by leading the Sedentary Artist Life (tm) isn't worth it in my opinion.

I use Liquin primarily but I also enjoyed using Gamlin's solvent free fluid until I stopped being able to open the cap...

Linseed oil is probably the best medium but you will wait weeks for your painting to dry between layers verses the day, maybe 2 days you will wait using Liquin.

Brushes

There's really no reason to buy super expensive brushes, at least not for me, I paint in a way that's very loose so they don't have the longest life span. I still use brushes that have lost their shape for loose hairs and interesting textures though.

You'll note there's usually "oil painting" brushes in art supply stores, these are good for starting a painting and scrubbing paint onto the canvas when you are trying to work lean over fat (as in layers with more oil on top as they dry slower, this helps the painting to not end up looking cracked).

However, water colour paint brushes serve me well for details as well as acrylic painting brushes.

It's all up to experimentation on you, the artist's part.

As for washing your brushes, as long as you don't leave them lying around with paint on them for so long that it drys completely using a bar of soap will do, or if you can afford it buying some brush cleaner/ restorer is great, solvents like turpentine are not necessary at all.

[lizswafford]

Village in the Hills Abstract Painting

18x24 in. Canvas This is a painting I made last month during an art workshop. The theme was unsound structures. Acrylic paint, Liquitex Basics.

[matchboxcowboy]

Finally finished this bad boy, I’ll post a better pic at a later date.

It’s for an ‘Evoking Emotions’ assignment and my chosen emotion to evoke was comfort/intimacy, featuring a wall taken directly from my bed room lmao, old art and all.

Materials used are:

- Liquitex basics acrylic paint (mainly napthol red, ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow, white, and burnt umber)

- Liquitex satin acrylic varnish

- mdf board

- generals charcoal pencils

- Golden Fluid Acrylic paint (pthalo blue-green undertone, this was used for the outlines)

- Liquitex Pro Heavy Body Acrylic (quinacridone magenta)

[yannleguen]

🇫🇷 Troisième série d'études de portraits, cette fois à l'acrylique. J'ai toujours voulu m'essayer à la peinture acrylique, l'année dernière j'ai acheté une boîte d'acrylique Liquitex en solde, pensant que c'était une bonne opportunité pour me lancer ; elle a pris la poussière sur mes étagères. Mais ça y est, l'étude des visages m'a motivé et, après 2-3 échauffements, voici mes premiers essais. J'ai d'abord utilisé uniquement du noir & blanc, toujours dans le but de travailler le contraste et la morphologie des visages ainsi que leurs expressions, puis j'ai commencé à sortir les autres tubes. Je me suis surpris a aimer dessiner directement au pinceau plat au lieu d'utiliser un crayon graphite. Le prochain post de la série sera plus coloré… Croquis réalisés avec de l'acrylique Liquitex Basics et un pinceau plat n°6 sur papier à dessin ; les portraits sont tirés de captures d'écran de vieux films.

🇬🇧 Third series of portrait studies, this time in acrylic. I've always wanted to try my hand at acrylic painting, last year I bought a box of Liquitex acrylics on sale, thinking it was a good opportunity to get started; it gathered dust on my shelves. But that's it, the study of faces motivated me and, after 2-3 warm-ups, here are my first attempts. I first used only black & white, always with the aim of working on the contrast and the morphology of the faces as well as their expressions, then I started to take out the other tubes. I surprised myself by liking drawing directly with a flat brush instead of using a graphite pencil. The next article in the series will be more colorful… Sketches made with Liquitex Basics acrylic and a n°6 flat brush on drawing paper; the portraits are taken from screenshots of old films.

[the-weakest-twink]

Hello! I loved your blackbird painting. Can I ask what thickener you used?

Thank you! :) I use Liquitex matte super heavy gel. It dries around as fast as acrylic. Basically I really like impasto but I'm too impatient to use oil paint (especially if I'm doing layering) and this is a pretty good solution.

[horseshoemybeloved]

you’re a real inspiration to me ❤️ i recently started to draw but now i want to start some painting, what brand of acrylics do you recommend to start off for a beginner? thank you and have a lovely day 🤗

Tysm!!! I started off with applebarrel, then liquitex basics, then winsor and newton, now I’m back to applebarrel lol.

At least for me and my methods of painting I don’t really need to be concerned about thickness and opacity so I just use applebarrel

( you can get them at Walmart for like 70 cents )

[glycerineclown]

op i saw your punisher jacket. if you made that design into stickers that would be epic (just a thought, but also i completely respect wanting to keep it as a design just for yourself)

It’s funny, I actually used stickers to make the main patch!

The idea of painting all of that text by hand was terrifying. I went to Joann’s and bought alphabet stickers, arranged them with tweezers, painted the entire thing over in black, then peeled the letters off.

Mind you aside from watching one (1) youtube video about how to paint your own patches, I completely winged this lettering technique, and who knows how well it will hold up over time. There are a few layers of paint on there because I wanted the coloring to look faded and grungy, and I worry about it cracking.

All of this is to say that I have never sold a design before, but I’m very glad you like it, and if I could have bought something like it instead of going through all this damn effort, I probably would have. I wish there were more fandom sellers for The Punisher that weren’t clearly Republicans. It did cross my mind to reproduce it as a patch, but holy FUCK did it take a long time, and would not be worth it unless I actually went through the trouble of creating a screenprinting station, and that's not going to happen.

If you happen to want to make your own, you will need:

anger about the fact that you feel the need to explain your complicated feelings about your fandom all the time

scrap fabric (I used an old t-shirt)

paint (I used Liquitex Basics Acrylic because that's what the goth teenager with one bleached eyebrow on youtube preferred)

small foam stippling brushes, a larger brush for the initial black layer, and a smaller stiff angled brush for detail cleanup

letter stickers (I used Sticko Futura Regular glitter stickers and the Sticko Foil Helvetica. They worked well enough but sometimes the paint bled around the edges and I had to clean it up after. I wanted flat stickers rather than raised because I thought they would be easier to paint around with the stippler)

The roses I did with an 8" stencil pack from Amazon and a roll of masking tape. This was significantly less effort.

The metal punch got two coins in before it broke. I decided the ones that I had were too shiny, so I smudged 'em with a bit of black paint.

Go forward anon, make a battle jacket! I just need a con to wear this one to. In the meantime, I'll try not to get beat up about it on the street. I'm waiting on a couple of buttons to arrive in the mail from Redbubble, Bernthal loving on Bam Bam and another that says "BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS NOW," because that felt relevant.

[dubious-artwork]

Some pokeballs I painted last year, including the one that started it all!

[littlewalken]

may 16

Did some art farting yesterday, when you're just messing around trying new to you mediums and seeing if an idea(s) will work it might as well be called art farting because you're beginning with the idea that you aren't planning to produce anything but are willing ot be surprised.

The Liquitex iridescent graphite paint is thin (color wise) with particles floating in it. Like the Derwent charcoal or that good idea bad execution Australian water color graphite paint if you ever tried it out.

I'm seeing something that with a bit of practice and farting around I'll be able to get some results. But it's still not inky and juicy like the water soluble graphite pencils and crayons I use.

I've earned the right to say I know what I'm doing with the stuff and too many of the water soluble graphite works I see on the web look "dirty" if you know what I mean and it's like they forget the water half of the medium and/or don't have experience with watercolors. It's a medium where you do ask someone if they even lift because that's how I do half the highlights.

More adulting today, just a consultation to basically hear when I get one if not both of the previous root canals redone. Then next week a deep cleaning which I haven't had in forever because I really don't like the sensation but i have to get it done to get my cap(s) which will be interesting to see how things go if the redo isn't for a few more weeks after.

Nothing will get me to go regularly, too much trauma baggage from the past.

Hopefully we'll pass a place to get some cleaner shrimp.

I am pondering getting a tablet of acrylic paper but I am also reminding myself I have plenty of watercolor and mixed media paper which should do just fine.

Should tomorrow awake without a headache, or much of one, I am going to see if the projector will work on that Grease 2 picture and the big ass paper. Gridding will not work, aside from the fact I haven't done a grid since before the brain injury because I wanted to learn freehand and stop all that erasing shit I've tried and I just get lost in the wrinkles on the sleeve of his jacket.

No matter how good a tracing/projection is if you don't have the art skills the final product will always crap out. And I have no intentions of selling this, it's for a piece for my wall at home.

*Bad news I get to have two root canal retreats...

[zemi-noelle-art]

What paints do you use for your custom lps

I actually just use plain old acrylics! if you want to get into specifics use Blick acrylics and Liquitex basics acrylics. I Recommend getting all the base primary colors (red, warm and cool toned blues, yellow, black, white, and a brown like burnt sienna.) as well as some cyan and magenta paints. Specifically for those two I use the shades bright aqua green and quinacridone magenta from Liquitex and they have been very vibrant in my experience. From there you can pretty much mix any color with those. It's also really important to water down your paints just the right amount and do them in layers. It can be tricky to get the right consistency but you get a feel for it as you go.

[sonic-spirit]

Arts and Stuff and Events

Man, it's so easy to freeze up. Or maybe, it's so hard to keep from freezing. But fuck. It's hard. I've been doing good about making art the past couple weeks, but I've been hesitant to post it, for some reason? IDK. Part of it is definitely me putting pressure on it again. Like, "If this is what I want to do with myself, I gotta make it work," and all that. Then just...not super loving what I'm making. Which could also just be from pressuring myself, because I could not point to what I'm not liking about the things.

I finally started painting again, for the first time since college, and for the first time for myself since probably middle school. It's nice. It's weird, familiar and really strange at once, nerve wracking and relaxing, giving me a really cool experience and feeling like I'm still falling short, but it's good. One of the things I really like about physical media is that it helps push me towards keeping moving...at least as long as I can get through my initial block of anxiety and start. And I've been good about not letting it get in my way, not letting myself tense up over "ruining" my supplies. The fact that I'm making sure to not spend a lot at a time, and that I'm also making sure to only get supplies I want to use is definitely helping. Springing for a small range of a higher reputation set of acrylic paints, instead of the Liquitex Basics I had the last couple times (and HATED) is def paying off. The fact that the set was both a more expansive palette than I wanted, and is missing some colors I consider essential (like a nice, dark purple. You gave me 3 dark blues, two of which that are nearly identical, and no dark purple...though I am getting WAAAY too much use out of that light violet!), is also nice for encouraging me to pick and choose what I replace and what I expand to and don't (ultramarine, my love, you are already nearly gone...!)

And then, like. I want to do events. I know I want to do events. Which events? Obviously furcons. And then I really like the picture in my head of vending at Ren Faires, and the like. And I really want to do the regular, local shows, especially as I get my legs under me for booth setup. All of those seem to have fairly broadly different, if intersecting enough, niches.

My current plan is to expand my Printify and Etsy, utilizing Printify's print on demand services for stickers, wearables, and any other kinds of merch that seems cool (I've been needing a new full zip sweatshirt, why not make a cool design for it myself?). I intend to continue making my Astral Deer series of paintings to keep working with the medium and getting myself comfortable, and to have a good place to experiment, and also branch into pet portraits and the like. I also want to make stall plaques for horses--their names and portraits painted on them, and also a slot to slide in a 3x5 index card for feeding instructions and such. And if that weren't enough I also want to start getting into leatherwork, making some kink items, like wrist and ankle cuffs, ponyplay things like bridles and halters, even harnesses and stuff, as I grow in skill and confidence. I want to make things.

I also still really love my job as horseback riding instructor, and I think my current mad plots synergize really well...well. Except for one thing: I'm down to working only weekends and Mondays...the same days of any events I'd want to plan to play in. So that sucks.

I'm pretty sure things will change with my schedule again soon enough. But also, it doesn't feel like something I have as much control over. It's frustrating.

Anyway. Current stage is to utilize the 4 days a week I'm not going out and busting my ass working with the horses and kids to make arts.