Painting Together with Acrylic

Join Gigi Chen

Grab your brushes and a fresh canvas and have fun painting with acrylic. 

Follow along with each lesson as contemporary artist Gigi Chen creates a painting from start to finish. All skill levels are welcome and no experience is necessary!

Painting Flowers

Painting Colorful Fish

Painting Flowers

Painting an Eye

Painting a Glowing Jellyfish

Painting Realistic Texture Effects

Painting an Illuminated Cat

Painting an Chicken


Get Prepared


Set yourself up for success before getting started. Here is your list of painting materials, plus two video tutorials for setting up an easy drawing transfer and DIY wet palette. 

Paints

  • Hansa Yellow Light
  • Cadmium Yellow Light
  • Chromium Oxide Green
  • Phthalocyanine Green
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Quinacridone Red

Paints

  • Yellow Ochre
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Burnt Umber
  • Payne’s Gray
  • Mar
  • Black
  • Titanium White

Brushes

  • A variety of small rounds and flats


Surface

  • 8×10 panel

Additional

  • Water jar
  • Rag for blotting
  • Wet palette
  • Graphite paper for transfer

The Perfect Materials Bundle


Painting Together Bundle from Blick!

Find everything you’ll need to complete your own Painting Together with Acrylics project! For painters of all levels, this list has paint, brushes, surfaces and more, recommended by Gigi for their quality and effectiveness.

Purchase the entire bundle or only the supplies you need for your studio. All available from Blick, our Painting Together partner!


Meet the Artist


Gigi Chen’s work creates an aesthetic that combines her training as a traditional animator and painter, along with her love of the techniques of the old masters. Entrenched in the art of storytelling, Gigi pulls together contemporary idioms of cartooning, photo-realism, texture, and design to produce works that coalesce into “love, craft, and fun.”

Born in Guang Dong, China and raised in New York, Gigi has extensively exhibited her work in respected public institutions and art galleries. Her exhibition credits include the Queens Museum of Art, Superfine Art Fair and Deep Space Gallery, and Stone Sparrow Gallery. Learn more at gigichen.com.

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