Work in Progress - Space girl - New to Acrylic paint. by Lewis Cooper

What a great start with acrylics Lewis! Bold and bright, super painting. When I started with them, I used a stay-wet palette, it kept the paint moist and more easy to blend colours

I have been following this on the Forum Lew and I love seeing a painting progress from the beginning. This is impressive and I don’t think you need to do much more if any.

I think you should persevere Lewis as this is very good!! I am not personally a great fan of acrylics but every so often I have a go!!

I think it's a very good start Lewis. I agree with David though and only ever use acrylics these days as an undrpai9nting to oils. Personally I find the range of colours (even when blended) are very limiting.

Looks very good to me, keep going Lew.

Keep going Lewis. You will master it. It’s got good vibrancy.

A fine start , it’s has so many good thing’s about it Lew . You have the necessary skills to enable you to adapt to using acrylic, better that it takes a bit longer than not painting .

Thanks for your comments. I will finish it, that’s why I posted it…to provide me with the impetus to carry on. I seldom post ‘work in progress’, but often don’t finish things. I expect we all do.

Acrylic: the final frontier. These are the paintings of Lewis. A mission: to explore strange new materials; to seek out new methods and new techniques; to boldly go where no Lewis has gone before!!!! Best of luck mate. Looking forward to seeing whats next 😀

Love the expression on the woman’s face.

I've been following on the forum Lewis and you should definitely keep going. It takes time getting to grips with a new medium and you are off to a great start.

It's a strong image, Lew, and well worth persevering with; you know you've got the ellipses a bit wrong but knowing that, you can make 'em right. Any new medium can be hard work to start with, because you have to learn its individual ways, and acrylic isn't the same as oil or watercolour - but it is endlessly versatile. Heather finds the colour range limiting - well, there are hundreds of colours available, but I think I know what she means in comparison with oil or watercolour: it's hard to achieve the same subtlety - that's its challenge, though.

Looks very good Lew. Acrylic paint is not for me so I admire anyone who can tackle it 👌

Well done for trying something new, Lewis and a very good start with this colourful painting. Lovely expressive face too !

Looking good to me Lewis, I think acrylics would be a very good medium for some of your work.

Great job. Never used acrylics in my life!

I've never got on with acrylics Lewis but you've spurred me on to have another go with them.

I’ve always found acrylics difficult Lewis, I can’t get to grips with the speed they dry at. I get them out now and again and have another go because they are there, and because I don’t like to be beaten! You have them sussed by the evidence above, it’s a terrific painting and a perfect medium for your colourful sci-fi scenes.

This is looking good, Lewis, love the expression on her face.

Don't give up Lew. Acrylics are so versatile, and this is a lovely painting. You have ably transferred the skills you have developed through other media into working with acrylics. Keep it up.

I fully agree that you have made a great start with this new medium. Bright, imaginative, and I love her expression. I'd say keep going to see whether acrylics "grow on you", they do have advantages.