Acrylic painting techniques for beginners?

Unlike transparent watercolours, acrylic is an opaque medium, so, like oils you can work from dark to light. It can also be used in transparent washes like watercolour and when used like this it will need to be worked light to dark. Of late, there has been an increased tendency to apply acrylic paint thickly with palette knives and new extending mediums are available to make the paint go further and dry more slowly.

Acrylic filled the gap between watercolours and oils, now we have quick drying, Alkyd oils, and oils that mix with water, acrylics may drop out of mainstream art?

I wrote a hub about this a short while ago...hubpages.com/hub/A-Beginners-Guide-to-Paint.

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