The first step to painting with acrylics is planning. Deciding what to paint is the first step of planning for most. Sometimes inspiration comes from just wanting to paint and then deciding what to paint or seeing something first and then deciding to paint it. A small minority of artists simply pick up a brush and start painting without any plan of action. Sometimes this method leads to disastrous results, but the artist usually develops a plan as they go along, eventually acquiring a subject for their piece. For the beginner though, picking a subject or scene is usually the best idea. Once an idea or subject

Now comes the fun part, painting. A common saying among acrylic painters is "the greatest advantage of acrylics is that they dry so fast and the greatest disadvantage of acrylics is that they dry so fast. This advantage/disadvantage allows for mistakes to be painted over in only an hour or so compared to the weeks or months it would take to paint over mistakes with oils. At the same time though, this leaves little flexibility to work with the paint while it is still wet. With acrylic painting, the background is painted first, this includes the sky, the ground or anything in the distance or behind your main focus, depending on your subject. Examples of this might include a distant tree-line or wall, this depends on what your subjects surroundings are. After the background is done, the middle ground is painted. This includes shadows and the base colors and outlines of the main subject. After that layer is finished, high-lights are added, which include the places where light would land on the

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