Dimensions
217 x 266 x 12mm
Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist
This essential guide for the acrylic artist includes informative and instructional chapters on:
- materials and tools: acrylic mediums and auxiliary materials; brushes and knives; supports and grounds; priming supports for painting; protecting finished works
- basic concepts: paint mixtures; basic blending methods; layering; texture and tone; scraping and abrading; dripping and spattering; planning paintings; preliminary sketching
- colour: understanding colour; value dominance; solid vs broken colour; the mother colour principle
- acrylic painting techniques: transparent watercolour techniques; opaque watercolour techniques; oil painting techniques; collage; relief painting
- acrylics in mixed media and craft applications: ink and transparent washes; pencil and wash; coloured pencil; lithography crayon; charcoal; pastel; oil pastel
- and much more.
