Sketching for the painting is very important, it is your memory and it gives you the ability to change things up. A sketchbook is very important especially when drawing people, you can sketch different angles and then apply it to your painting.

So you say you have nothing to paint? Have you looked inside your closet or in your kitchen? Pots and pans are great. Chairs and clothes are another great item to paint but the added value of these is you learn shapes and colors, shadows and light. You learn size ratio from one item to the next. You can choose a small canvas and just paint the fruit you have on your counter, artists have been doing this for centuries and with great success.

Acrylic can be used on many surfaces such as paper, cardboard, canvas, tin, glass and walls. It can be used to look like watercolors by making the paint very thin or to look like an oil painting by adding it straight from the tube with the medium. Enjoy and experiment with this process.