"Painting Problem Solver" by Paul Taggart - Darks and Lights in Acrylic Painting

This Painting Problem Solver is in response to the following problems posted in the Art Clinic section of my main website -- www.artworkshopwithpaul.com

From Mary Briggs in the UK -- "My problem is creating shadows in bright sunlight on poeple and their clothing. This in acrylic."

From Carnellia Sammons in the USA -- "When beginning a painting, and doing the underpainting, is it better to underpaint with darker shadow colors, or lighter colors?"

"Painting with Light" is how Paul describes the process demonstrated in this fully narrated tutorial, filmed in real-time.

Watch as Paul uses a head and shoulders portrait to show how to work gradually in layers from dark to light, thereby demonstrating how the dark underlayers can be best exploited to maximise the forthcoming light layers and final super highlights.

Thus providing Mary with a solution to her problem in creating shadows in her figure painting and for Carnellia this will demonstrate the benefit of starting off with dark underpainting to achieve the shadow colours.


Painting Problem Solvers is a strand dedicated to providing solutions to queries posted by visitors either on to Paul Taggart's painting blog (Art Workshop With Paul Taggart) or on the Art Clinic in his main website 'Art Workshop With Paul'.


Let this Artist and Author of fourteen books show you how to expand your horizons and make the most of the exciting possibilities with painting from dark to light in acrylic painting.

TO POST A QUERY FROM WHICH PAUL can select subjects for his upcoming Painting Problem Solvers please leave your query in the Art Clinic of his main website or on the dedicated blog. Use the links shown on the Homepage of this show.

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[artworkshopwithpaul]

Hi @Themusicaligera - thanks for posting your query in the Art Clinic section of our main website - we have added your query to our list of Painting Problem Solvers to film - so we'll let you know when that is done. We will soon film Lesson 2 in our series 'Learn To Enjoy Painting Portraits and Figures' - have you seen Lesson 1? We have many tutorials on acrylic painting which might help you too - simply browse our Season 2 Playlist. All best from Eileen and Paul

[Themusicaligera]

hey paul... im a begginer and i dont know how to blend colors, to get nice and smooth shadows and light for portraits (im using acrylics and they dry very very fast) please please help me with that topic :) thks

[artworkshopwithpaul]

To get your problem resolved by Paul, simply pop back to the Homepage of this channel and use the links in the left hand corner to take you to either Paul's main web site (where you can post your problem in the Art Clinic section) or to his dedicated Problem Solving blog.

[artworkshopwithpaul]

Eileen and Paul would like to Welcome all our new subscribers and to say thankyou to those who have taken the time and trouble to post comments. We switched to comments with approval not because we will not publish every comment - it is simply that we wish to respond to every comment and this way we get a chance to see them as they come in and can reply with care.