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Ant Holder

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Tackling a sunset with acrylics, first time too. Struggling though with the mid to bottom of the painting. Happy with top and how it goes into the lighter yellow surrounding the Rock.

Phil Kendall

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Try cadmium yellows, reds, oranges and paint fast with a big flat brush

Ant Holder

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Using Lemon Yellow, white, raw sienna, Prussian blue, violets, cadmium yellow and orange....
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Paint fast probably IS the best advice with a sunset - if you're after the more dramatic ones, anyway. Maybe I'd swap the Prussian Blue for Pthalo - but then, so much depends on whose paint you're using; and in acrylic, Prussian is usually Pthalo plus black.

Ant Holder

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Yes, I am doing sweeping movements with a wide brush angled. I'm using Windsor and Newton acrylics.