LEARNING OBJECTIVES
■ Loosen up your approach to painting with acrylics
■ Top tips for keeping your colours clean
■ Ideas for setting up and painting still lifes with flowers
KEY
1 Black
2 Lemon yellow
3 Cadmium yellow
4 Viridian
5 Prussian blue
6 Purple/violet
7 Emerald
8 Cadmium red
9 Yellow green
10 Alizarin crimson
11 Cadmium orange
12 Sap green
13 Turquoise
14 Ultramarine
15 Cadmium red deep
16 Yellow ochre
17 Magenta
18 Burnt umber
19 Cobalt blue
20 White
21 Burnt sienna
22 Raw umber
23 Cerulean blue
Over the next couple of months, I will be introducing the techniques I use to paint flowers, both en plein air and when I’m back home in the studio. I will be working with heavy-body acrylic paints, using the same simple tools and colours for both settings:
• A stay-wet palette
• Long-handled filberts, flats and Round nylon
