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Anybody here have a lot of experience in acrylic or oil? I have been getting into painting recently, something I haven't done since high school art class. I mostly use acrylic because I can't afford anything else. The first 4 or 5 pieces were just experiments with texture and not much depth, mostly to put some colour on my walls. But now when painting actual things the problem I seem to consistently have is that everything seems flat and dull all of the time. I can't seem to pull anything out of the canvas. If I had a camera I'd post some pictures.

Using some other people's work as examples. I want to go from this:

to this:
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