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Acrylic Paint

Exploring Materials: Acrylic Paint

Acrylic Paint

Acrylic Paint is a great medium for painting which everyone can enjoy exploring.

Find resources on this page which help aid that exploration, and then which develop skills further through projects and pathways.

All resources can be adapted to all age groups from children through to adult.

explore Acrylic Paint...

Handpicked resources to help inspire an exploration of acrylic paint

Expressive Painting & Colour Mixing

expressive painting on green

Session Recording: Colour Mixing

Mixing secondary and tertiary colours

Develop skills...

Be inspired by these projects to help develop skills and experience

Working on black paper

Sardines and lemons painted in colour on black paper.

Sculptural Environments Inspired by Hockney

Sculptural Environment Inspired by Hockney by Natalie Deane

osakana

Acrylic Paint

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Adding Crayon To The Portrait by Tobi Meuwissen

Talking Heads

Cutting Out Shapes by Tobi Meuwissen

Cooking With Collage

Colour and Compositions by Yu-Ching Chiu

Adapting AccessArt: Colour and Composition

Units Painted on Paper by Yu-Ching Chiu

Illustrating a Book: The Making of Rabbit, Cactus, Accident

Final Ice World by Frances Hatch

Ice Worlds

Clay Pinch Pots and Pendants Inspired By Stone Age Pots by Charlotte Puddephatt

Adapting AccessArt: Stone Age Clay Play

Painting Plates by Natalie Deane

Our Creative Community: Plates Inspired by Janine Burrows

Monoprint and Oil Pastel Inspired by The Great Fire of London by Ruth Sohn-Rethel

Adapting AccessArt: Monoprint and Painting: The Great Fire of London

Sculptural Environment Inspired by Hockney by Natalie Deane

Sculptural Environments Inspired by Hockney

attached to mannequin by Paula Briggs

Making 2d & 3d Fashion Designs with Painted and Decorated Paper

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Making Painted & Sewn Landscapes

Monoprinted pages

A Visual Poetry Zine with Monotype

secondary colours on sketchbook page

Expressive Painting & Colour Mixing

Osakana detail: acrylic on calico

Osakana

Final 3D Tins And Jars By Tobi Meuwissen

Paint Your Corner Shop

Light-Field Monotype by Tobi Meuwissen

Light-field Monotype with Acrylic Paint

Freyas Painting By Joanne Andrews

Still Life Compositions: Inspired by Cezanne

Final Packaging Together by Tobi Meuwissen

Redesigning Food Packaging

bright colours on acetate

Back – Painted Portraits

Detail from Flowers in a Glass Vase, by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (c) The Fitzwilliam Museum

Be Inspired by Flowers in a Glass Vase by Jan Davidsz de Heem

MPM_Painted_Clay_Spheres

Painted Clay

Burton Hathow Ducklings by Rachel Burch

Burton Hathow Ducklings

The Wildflower Meadow by Rachel Burch

The Wildflower Meadow

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Pimp That Snack! Large Scale Food Sculptures

CMY - Working big - SC Artworks with Scola Acrylic Paint

Painting a Bluebell Forest in Cyan, Magenta and Process Yellow on a Large Scale

finished "wild thing"

Making Sculptural “Wild Things” (Session 2 & 3)

Colour Mixing with different water based painting mediums - SC

Exploring Primary Colours and Progressing from Powder Paint to Gouache and Acrylic

The BFG by Portia

Year 3 Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake Homework

Finished canvas

Making your Mark on Small Canvases

Installing artwork in the Scale Gallery

Installing Artwork in “To Scale” Gallery

Under the Water Mirrors - SC - Ridgefield

Under the Ocean Mirrors

rowan - 17

Self Portrait in Acrylic

Scolaquip - Experimenting with canvases - SC

Teenagers Paint a Canvas with Scolaquip

Arts and Minds - Cambourne - week six - monoprinting - SC

Arts and Minds: Expressive Monoprinting on a Big Scale

Arts and Minds - Asemic Writing - week three -SC

Arts and Minds: Asemic Writing and Invented Text

Arts and Minds - Cambourne VC - Week Two - SC

Arts and Minds: A ‘Heart-Work’ Conversation

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

What is a Canvas? Exploration Activity

And for some a fully immersive experience!

Our River – Year Five Pupils Build a Communal Drawing in Four Steps

lola explores Poison Tree, William Blake

Using Monoprinting and Sketchbooks to Explore GCSE English Literature Poetry

And reveals her print

Following on Screen Printing with Andy Mckenzie

Boys get to work! Andy encourages experimenation and working by trial and error to explore screen printing

Introducing Screen Printing with Andy Mckenzie

Hedgehog mask by a pupil at Milton Road Primary School

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

And a dog

Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club

Finished painting

Painting the Light and the Dark…

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Transformation Project: Snippets of Inspiration

15 Working from looped video combines the best of all

Detached and Timeless Painting Workshop by Sara Dudman

Cordelia "Doo" Spalding

Literacy Boost Project: James & the Giant Peach Garden by Cordelia Spalding

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Intuitive Art- Freedom to Paint by Natasha Day

Details of Emma’s Landscape Relief Exemplar

Layers in the Landscape by Emma Davies

Animal Heads made by pupils in the Art Cabin at

Newspaper Heads by Sharon Gale

Chloe Williams

Painting the Savannah by Chloe Williams

final detail

Scraperboard Woodcut Lookalikes

kybadcat

Bad Cat: Inspiration for Art Week

Making sculpture inspired by Ben Nicholson's drawings

How does the Sculpture Balance?

Juggling colour and shapes

Colour Composition and Ben Nicholson

Ludworth Mural

Murals in Schools by Tracy McGuinness-Kelly

The Minibeast Project

Minibeast Artwork by Tracy McGuinness-Kelly

Winter Still Life

Winter Still Life

Stencil star (Sue Gough)

Sue Gough: Making a Layered Drawing

Smart Materials and Art!

Making Maps Magical with Thermochromic Paint – Where Art, Science and D&T Meet

Battle of the strokes

Group Painting Activity: Teenagers ‘Battle it Out’ with Acrylic Paint

Claude

1000 Dogs Project by Kathryn Sjogren

Teacup

Tackling Still Life for Children Part 3 – Acrylic Painting

Halloween Still Life - Roses

Halloween Still Life Using Acrylic Paint

burwashorange

Acrylic Painting: ‘Food, Glorious Food’

Gestural Mark Making with Acrylics

Gestural Mark Making with Acrylic Paint

Making Mummies

How to Make a Mummy and Sarcophagi PDF

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