 Well there are a lot of different painting techniques and tonight in our in focus our cherelle Moore shows us an artist who focuses on one. You've seen watercolor and probably an oil on canvas but did you know you could get all those same effects just by investing in some acrylic paint? Whatever you can create with any other medium you can get the same look with acrylic but it's much easier I think. Pamela Edevold has been painting since she was a little girl. She started doing portraits in high school and never looked back. I love anything with eyes animals people that's the first thing I paint because I like them to look at me or at least be alive while I'm painting. Edevold decided to teach a class on acrylics to let people know how versatile and forgiving the medium can be. Acrylic is was created in the 50s so it's not very old and it's making a lot of progress especially in the last few years it's come a long way so it's really becoming an accepted medium now and you can do so much with it. And it doesn't take much to create a masterpiece. Edevold says you should start with the running faucet then add the three primary paint colors plus white you can even get cheap brushes. You don't want to use your most expensive brushes with acrylics because they they get beat up pretty fast. You don't need to buy a whole lot of mediums or anything to start with you only need water. Once you have your materials then you can get creative. Some of them have beads in them some have glass there's metallics there's all different kinds of looks you can get by using the different mediums you can use use them in collages and to create three-dimensional works so there's a lot of things beyond just the tubes of paint that you can do with them. It's really your imagination is really the one thing that's holding you back. Today the attendees in Edevold's class were taught techniques in making clouds. Next week will be a barn then they'll eventually move on to people and fur. While it's too late to center for this acrylic session other art classes in Bagley can be found on the Bagley Arts Collaborative Facebook page. There's a jewelry class coming up there's a watercolor class and there will be more this fall that that aren't listed yet but there's more coming. Reporting in Bagley with this week's in focus Shromor Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.