Mary Todd Beam: An Acrylic Journey - From Trash to Treasure & An Inward LookIn the first project Mary Todd Beam strives to achieve order out of the visual chaos of a garage sale. She uses a view finder to isolate her subject and proceeds to simplify the objects into more basic shapes. Mary simplifies subjects in a line drawing, then builds a foundation of bold, transparent pigments. She caps the painting with opaque layers and textures enabled by her acrylic process. She introduces concepts like linkage, abstraction and

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Floating on top of the surface are lily pads of every color in the rainbow

and have found him to be one of the most influential artists of the 19th Century

Composition and Foundation Values: The tonal sketch and the value it will bring to your paintings

you’re sure to learn something amazing by discovering the value of painting in the negative spaces

realist art was saved by the Communist regime of the Soviet Union when it banned all modern art from its schools and Universities

Digital tools: brush

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you’ll be incorporating these new skills into your very next project

it is still a very limited palette and one that can be used for a lifetime without exhausting its possibilities

You don't need to be an experienced painter to learn how to paint stunning compositions using Michele's techniques

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