Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Techniques - Acrylic Painting

So you want to try acrylics, but have little (or no) painting experience? No problem Not with this book by your side

In this book, you'll find everything you need to get off to a strong start--from what supplies to buy to how to make the most of acrylics bright colors. Easy-to-follow exercises show you how to paint flowers, trees, bricks, skies, fur and other simple subjects, while teaching you a variety of application techniques.

Step-by-step demonstrations help you apply what you've learned to make your first paintings good ones. You'll get plenty of specific instructions--color...

You too can become an artist. It's as easy as 1-2-3

Beloved television painter Brenda Harris shows you how to paint perfect acrylics every time with the 10 projects inside this book—the fourth in North Light's Painting with Brenda Harris series.

You'll love the 10 charming garden scenes in this book, including a bougainvillea terrace, a bird nestled in the foliage, and vegetables ripe for harvest. Capture exquisite details—from creeping vines to sunlit blooms—and learn to incorporate people, animals, and buildings into your...

Let Jerry Yarnell teach you how to paint acrylic landscapes

You can master landscape painting with the help of popular painter Jerry Yarnell. Jerry starts by exploring different areas of landscape painting that often create problems for beginning and intermediate artists. He'll walk you through individual studies, so you can practice and explore new techniques without worrying about ruining a complete painting, then he'll show you how to apply those techniques to create finished works of art.

Learn how to:

• Work with the right materials
• Master...

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...

The technical secrets of a professional painter for the best results and more room for creativity.

Painting in Acrylics: The Indispensable Guide provides comprehensive guidance for painters of all experience. Realist painter Lorena Kloosterboer, known for her exceptional technical skill, starts with the basics and progresses to advanced techniques and professional practice.

The topics include:

• About Acrylic Paint -- Types of acrylics, comparative advantages, how to read a paint label, using mediums and additives, gesso and varnish

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Secrets to Painting Beautiful Landscapes

Painting the landscape can be fun and rewarding--if you make the right decisions as you paint. After all, it is the artist's greatest challenge to somehow capture a sense of it all--the grandness, the majesty, the splendor of nature--with just a few strokes of paint on a canvas. Popular art instructor Johannes Vloothuis makes the process a whole lot easier with the essential techniques, key concepts and expert advice he shares in this book.

• Learn straightforward strategies to make your paintings more interesting and dramatic, such as...

Master the art of painting beautiful waterscapes in oil & acrylic.

As part of Walter Foster's core How to Draw & Paint series, Oil & Acrylic: Waterscapes offers a unique perspective on something never before covered in other Walter Foster landscape or seascape titles.

Beginning with an introduction to the necessary tools and materials, this book also covers basic color theory and painting techniques, such as creating washes, scumbling, and painting wet-into-wet, among others.

Following the comprehensive step-by-step instructions,...