Painting A Horse Shaped Landscape Using Paper Tape | Acrylic Painting

Acrylic landscape painting techniques -
Colour choice was limited, the vivid bright colours found in acrylics today just weren’t available, and pigment choice paid an integral part in the painting process.
Not just aesthetically but as a sign of power.
Often, the bluer the painting, the richer the patron. The pigment Ultramarine blue famously used to be more expensive than gold. It was extracted from lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone used as the raw ingredient until the colourmaker Jean-Baptiste Guimet created a synthetic alternative to lapis lazuli in France in 1828.
There are literally thousands of choices of different colours. Paint manufacturers have the urge to constantly produce a new variety or shade of pigment.
To tell you that this is the ‘magic bullet’, the wonder colour that will solve all your painting problems.
It won’t.
However, when we combine the principles from classical painting with the new modern materials of acrylic painting to create a method of painting that is both simple for the beginner to create pleasing results and broad enough for more practised artists to continue their study.
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