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ACR YLICS
EXAMPLE OF AN ACRYLIC PAINTING
A Bigger Splash, David Hockney, 1967
Acrylic on canvas, 95½ x 96 in (242.5 x 243.8 cm)
Paint applied
evenly using Cotton duck
a roller canvas support
(surface)

Flatness of
rollered areas
enhanced by
adding gel
medium to
Masking tape the paint
stuck on to
canvas to define
main shapes, and
paint applied
within these areas
using a roller
Thin strip of
pool edge left
unpainted

Splash painted Imprecise edge on
using thicker end of spring board
paint and where paint has
small brush seeped under
masking tape

EXAMPLES OF ACRYLIC PAINTS AND TECHNIQUES
Paint applied using
Opaque Extruded painting knife
effect (squeezed) effect

PURPLE ACRYLIC YELLOW ACRYLIC ORANGE ACRYLIC
PAINT PAINT PAINT Thick impasto with
Transparent, Translucent,
watercolor impasto glaze coarse texture
effect

BLUE ACRYLIC PAINT GREEN ACRYLIC PAINT RED ACRYLIC PAINT MIXED
DILUTED WITH WATER MIXED WITH GEL MEDIUM WITH TEXTURE PASTE

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