How to Layer Acrylics for Depth: Koi Fish Painting Tutorial

Hi Art Friend! Today I am demonstrating how to paint a landscape featuring koi swimming in a lily pond. This is all done in acrylics using the following colors. I am using Golden Heavy Bodied Acrylics in the following colors: Titanium White Mars Black Pyrrole Orange Phthalo Blue Red Shade Naphthol Red Primary Yellow Yellow Ochre Diarylide Yellow Dioxazine Purple I am painting on a stretched gallery wrapped acrylic primed cotton canvas 48" x 24" x 1.5" and using Lowe Cornell round #11, American Painter Filbert 1/2" and a liner brush all in golden taklon. I will demonstrate for you how to layer your acrylic paint, using scumbling and dry brush techniques, and talk about how to hold your paintbrush to achieve a loose and painterly style. Negative space painting and Chiaroscuro art principles are also discussed. #UnderWaterArtChallenge Are you a beginner artist or mid career artist who would like to market your artwork? I am here to help. I provide you art marketing and art career guidance for beginning artists and mid career artists who would like to have gallery representation, need help with juried exhibits, or if you want to increase your social media reach. In addition to helping you with art career coaching, I have videos for you about how to paint, painting tips and techniques, art supply unboxings, and fun and engaging Live streams. My name is Dena Tollefson and I am a professional, full time artist from Iowa USA. I provide painting tutorials in watercolor, acrylic, and oil paint every Friday. I hope you will subscribe and come back again. I am known for deep, vibrant colors in my signature painting technique called Daubism. Looking to find the art supplies I am using? Find my art supplies here https://www.amazon.com/shop/dena_toll... As an Amazon Influencer, I receive compensation at no additional cost to you. Music is "White River" by Aakash Gandhi from the YouTube music library Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel Learn more at my website https://www.denatollefson.com I am a Christian and my artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use my paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought. Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us. I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the "feel" of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total. My work known as "Daubism" is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint." "I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors"- Dena Tollefson I am an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting. Two of my paintings are in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's permanent collection. My originals and commissioned work are available exclusively through the fine art galleries across the US who represent my original and commissioned work. Find the list of galleries and licensed merchandise here www.denatollefson.com