Acrylic Painting for Beginners — Fun and Simple Ideas

Acrylic paints are slowly gaining popularity and are becoming the most commonly used medium for beginners and intermediate art enthusiasts. Many professional artists are also using acrylic as an alternative to toxic, pricey, and slow-drying oil paints.

There are many advantages of using acrylic paints compared with other common painting mediums. Acrylic is not a high-maintenance medium and you don’t need a lot of supplies to paint with acrylics. All you need is a brush, a cup of water, a surface to paint on, and the paints themselves. Acrylics also allow greater control over the consistency and texture of the paints and dry quickly, which allows for better layering.

Here are some fun and simple ideas to help you start painting with acrylics until you get a better feel of the medium and can move on to advance paintings:

Silhouette Over Blended Backgrounds

Acrylics are easy to blend, and you can create a color gradient easily for a gorgeous background. One of the easiest beginner acrylic paintings is creating gradient backgrounds and using darker colored acrylic paints to create silhouettes over them. For example, use red, orange, and yellow to create a sunset gradient and a silhouette of a couple holding hands in the foreground for a simple and romantic final result.

Florals

Florals are a wonderful and colorful subject matter for beginner acrylic artists. The shapes of the flowers are quite forgiving, and you can go with your gut and use the shape of the brush to create petals from different colors. Once you become an expert in making simple flower shapes, you can create faceted hues by mixing variations of color to create beautiful blossoms.

Paint By Numbers Kits

Another great way to begin painting with acrylics and understand the nature of the medium is through paint by number kits. The kits come with pre-mixed colors, so you don’t have to worry about creating different shades. You can practice transferring the color to the canvas while ensuring the current consistency to prevent the color from spreading. It’s also one of the easiest and most fun ways to create art using acrylic paints!

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