Welcome to my dahlia acrylic painting tutorial and timelapse! In this floral painting lesson, I will cover how to paint a large dahlia using a limited palette. I absolutely love painting flowers, and working with acrylic can present challenges with blending the paint, but with a few tips and tricks it can be managed to create a lovely, realistic result. This tutorial is geared towards beginner to intermediate painters, and you can download my reference photo for free through this link: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/617da4...

This video predominantly covers color mixing and blending, but also includes some of the difficulties that I encountered while trying to light the painting and film it in the new studio space.

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Materials used:

- 36" x 48" Gallery Profile Canvas with the edges painted black
- Gesso
- Limited Floral Palette: burnt umber, titanium white, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow light (in this video, I used mostly tubes of Liquitex Professionals with a tub of Golden cadmium red medium).
- Variety of brushes, including a foam brush for priming the canvas
- Liquitex Professional Matte Medium
- Kamar by Krylon spray varnish (after the video)

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Adding the first layer and underpainting
01:24 Limited Palette for Painting Flowers
01:44 Mixing Colours for Your Flowers
02:47 Why the First Layer is Transparent
04:10 Mixing Dark Colours
04:56 Why Your Paint Appears Streaky when Dry
05:47 Adding the Second Layer
09:53 Revealing the Final Painting