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Acrylic Painting For Dummies

By Colette Pitcher

For Dummies
Paperback (320 pages)

Acrylic Painting For Dummies
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  • ISBN13: 9780470444559
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Create gorgeous paintings with this fun and easy guide to acrylics!

Always wanted to paint with acrylics? This easy-to-follow, full color guide gives you expert instruction and simple exercises in acrylic painting techniques and styles. The step-by-step projects let you practice your skill and stir your imagination — and give you the foundation to create similar projects with your own subjects and surfaces!

  • Get your feet (and brushes) wet — assemble your materials, prepare your surfaces, and sort out additives and enhancers
  • Try out basic acrylic techniques — work with brush strokes, control and thin your paint, experiment with textures, and use stencils

  • Practice design and composition principles — mix and use color, balance elements, make changes, and pull your painting together

  • Imitate several kinds of styles — use acrylic paint to mimic the effects of watercolor and oil paints

  • Build your repertoire — explore texture and dimension, work with glass, rocks, bricks, metalwork, and more

Open the book and find:

  • Clear step-by-step instructions with illustrations
  • A variety of projects and styles to suit all tastes

  • Quick tricks and techniques to get started painting right away

  • Lots of colorful paintings to inspire creativity

  • Helpful hints for improving your drawing skills

  • Full-scale projects at the end of most chapters

  • Exercises to jump-start your artistic passion

Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic

By Ann Baldwin

Quarry Books
Spiral-bound (144 pages)

Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic
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  • ISBN13: 9781592534562
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A workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery.

Creative Mixed Media: Paint Print Stitch Stamp Embellish

By Sherrill Kahn

That Patchwork Place
Paperback (112 pages)

Creative Mixed Media: Paint Print Stitch Stamp Embellish
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  • ISBN13: 9781564779489
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The popular author of Creative Embellishments is back with even more exciting ideas to explore! Packed with inspiration, this book offers 15 creative techniques to try with paper and fabric. Discover out-of-the-ordinary uses for everyday items such as baby wraps, hair gel, and shower mats. Play with new techniques and materials; then follow Sherrill's guidelines on design and composition to create a stunning work of art.



* Master techniques that range from stamping and paper embossing to working with stencils, digital images, glue batik, and much more
* Browse the stunning galleries; there's one for each technique
* Learn to ask What if? and produce your own symphony of line, color, texture, and value

Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks and Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium

By Nancy Reyner

North Light Books
Spiral-bound (128 pages)

Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks and Techniques for Working with the World s Most Versatile Medium
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  • ISBN13: 9781581808049
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Liberate Your Creativity With Acrylic Paints!

Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic painting techniques and more. It features over 101 ways to break through the boundaries of conventional painting and re-define the creative potential of this all-purpose medium.

Every page provides insight on how to use acrylic paint in ways you never thought possible to create stunning visual effects and textures. Ten complete sections detail a range of empowering applications, including how to:

  • Prepare and paint on virtually any surface
  • Create textures of all kinds
  • Work with transfers, collage, resists and mixed media
  • Achieve innovative stenciling and line work
  • Customize your paint to adjust thickness, transparency and drying time
  • Simulate other mediums, such as oil, tempera or watercolor
  • Create faux finishes, magical effects, sheens and more
To give you additional insight and inspiration, this book features a gallery of finished works by fellow painting revolutionaries that blend various acrylic techniques to create amazing effects. You'll also find practical advice that covers the basics and beyond--from selecting materials and cleaning your brushes to finishing and preserving your artwork. There's even a complete glossary of terms for fast and easy referencing.

Pick up a brush and start your own acrylic revolution today!

Use the techniques in this book to free your creative spirit and create the paintings you've always dreamed of.

An Introduction to Acrylics (DK Art School)

By Ray Smith

Dorling Kindersley
Paperback (72 pages)

An Introduction to Acrylics (DK Art School)
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The DK Art School series provides all the fundamental techniques both adult and juvenile artists need. At the heart of each book are twelve projects that explore the methods of the great masters. Each specially commissioned painting is broken down in step-by-step color photos that show every stage of its creation. Lists of materials, subjects, and techniques complete each volume. 300 color photos.

Rethinking Acrylic: Radical Solutions For Exploiting The World's Most Versatile Medium

By Patti Brady

North Light Books
Spiral-bound (160 pages)

Rethinking Acrylic: Radical Solutions For Exploiting The World s Most Versatile Medium
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  • ISBN13: 9781600610134
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Rethinking Acrylic shows readers how to use acrylic paint in a variety of ways. Acrylic can mimic oil paint, watercolor, gouache and encaustic; it can be applied in subtle transparent washes, or troweled as a heavy thick impasto; it can be as transparent as glass or as dense and black as tar. Because of its ever-changing state, the author and contributors are covering the most popular techniques for acrylic, making them accessible to the contemporary artist and crafter thorough a variety of mini-demonstrations followed by full demonstrations that show how to transform those techniques into finished paintings.

Takes an in-depth approach to the most popular techniques with 27 mini-demonstrations and 10 full demonstrations that show how to incorporate the featured techniques into completed paintings.

Color Mixing Recipes

By William F Powell

Walter Foster
Spiral-bound (48 pages)

Color Mixing Recipes
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This practical resource explains the basic of color theory and demonstrates how to mix more than 450 colors for oil and acrylic painting. The book includes a Color Mixing Grid for accurate paint measurement.

Jane Davila's Surface Design Essentials: Explore Paints, Mediums, Inks and Pencils, 15 Techniques for Fabric and More

By Jane Davila

C&T Publishing
Paperback (72 pages)

Jane Davila s Surface Design Essentials: Explore Paints, Mediums, Inks and Pencils, 15 Techniques for Fabric and More
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  • ISBN13: 9781607050773
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This is your license to play! Whether you?re a quilter, a textile artist, or you dabble in mixed media, you?re going to love this tool. When you can?t find the exact fabric you need, make it yourself!

Drawing Made Easy: Lifelike Heads: Discover your "inner artist" as you learn to draw portraits in graphite

By Lance Richlin

Walter Foster
Paperback (64 pages)

Drawing Made Easy: Lifelike Heads: Discover your "inner artist" as you learn to draw portraits in graphite
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  • ISBN13: 9781600580666
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Learn to draw amazingly realistic portraits in seven easy stages

This book is the perfect guide for creating lifelike representations of the human head in graphite. Experienced artist Lance Richlin begins by explaining drawing tools and materials, shading techniques, and the important anatomical structures of the head. Following these basics, he shows how to light the subject, block in and render each feature of the face, and address a variety of expressions-from subtle smiles to toothy grins. Then he guides the reader through four impressive projects, showing how to develop a lifelike head drawing in seven simple stages: the lay-in, plumb lines, volume, outline, tonal pattern, value, and finishing. Readers also will find an in-depth troubleshooting section to help them identify and solve any problems that lessen the realism and accuracy of their drawings. In an age full of technological shortcuts, this book emphasizes drawing from life and seeks to preserve the methods of the old masters.

Encyclopedia of Oil Painting Techniques

By Jeremy Galton

Running Press Book Publishers
Hardcover (192 pages)
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Oils are ideal for the beginning painter. With this volume of Running Press's Encyclopedia of Art Technique Series, the artist learns how to build forms and textures, discover the secrets of mixing oil with other media, follow step-by-step demonstration, and much more. More than 200 full-color photographs.

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