Help?? ^__^ its about art.....

For my second peice of late corsework im working on a canvis with acrilics now im sketching it out now, but i havent ever used acrilics in fact iv never worked on a canvis, and well i need advise on how to pain it, just to give you a little help on how to help me its half the head of a girl and half the head of a seal, the face i can probly do its the hair im very worried about

I usually work with poster paint... it's way easier... but I joined in a couple of contests and other art- realated things and they always use acrilics... so like you I'm starting to get used to it ... I have a couple of tips for you... things that I learned while trying to use acrilics and its start with the background and try to use a light color...if it looks better in a darker color paint the background let it dry then do the rest of the pic ... acrilics are pretty strong so try to use more water for light shades and be carful when mixing color cuz as I said acrilics are strong colors... as for the hair use a pointed brush not a square tip brush and put more paint then the rest to make the paint stand out for texture... if you want to see how it looks let it dry cuz the color changes when it dries... then look from a distance cuz the acrilics are shiny types of colors so even if you painted a light shade under a dark one it'll still show from a distance... good luck

If your not sure of how the picture should look,you might try getting a pic of a seal off the computer and a pic of a face,it helps to have something to look at. remember that acrylics dry much faster than oils,and also there are more colors in everything than you might think . add small amounts of the skin color into the hair,that helps it to look like it belongs, reflections of the background might also be seen.paint is a very forgiving medium so don`t be afraid to try,you can always paint over it .good luck.

Thank you ^__^ good tips i have to say

I like acrylics... they're a nice mix of transparency and opacity. One nice thing about the medium I've found is that you can water colors down to make them more transparent, if you want to (which almost makes them paint like watercolors), or else keep them at their full strength. If they are watered down, though, it may be more different to give the canvas a smooth finish, since the surface is rough. With a canvas, you'll probably want to use more paint, depending on how detailed you want to go.

Something else to keep in mind about acrylics is that they're very fast-drying. This is good when you don't want to wait for one section to dry before moving on, but it can be difficult because it's hard to go back in and re-work certain areas if they're already dry. You kind of have to add a new layer altogether.

For the hair, i'd do a basic base coat with the main color you're going for, then use consecutively smaller brushed to block in the highlights and lowlights, finally ending for a very finehair brush for the final details, like any individual strands that you want to have. It might help if the paint you use there is a little thinner, so it doesn't glob up.

Thanks :P im glad i have alot of brushes now lol!! ^__^ holbey craft is my favorite shop now i can get 4 different sized brushes for acrilics for less then £3 ^__^ im happy.... though acrilics are still expensive lol!!!