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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 welcome and no experience necessary!
Explore episodes and add your work to the student gallery.
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
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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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