Creative Acrylic Landscapes
Acrylic Painting Tips & Techniques
by Wendy Jelbert
Landscapes must surely be the most popular of all subjects for artists to paint. If you
choose to depict them in acrylics, you have picked a medium that combines the properties of
oils and watercolors in a unique way. Here is a book full of advice on how to get the best
out of your paints and your pictures.
Quite a lot of the advice in here will apply to anybody who has decided to take up any
kind of painting with any kind of paints, which is as it should be. Not too much space is
given up to listing materials, and not too many are considered to be necessary. Ms Jelbert
takes a few brief chapters to discourse on working from photographs, keeping a sketchbook,
composition, etc. and then it is on with how to work with acrylics. She shows what the
paint looks like when used in a variety of different ways, such as oil, watercolor or when
using additives, and how to apply the paint. There are several projects in here laid out
in the invariable Search Press manner, showing how to build up your picture a little at a
time in a series of staged photographs, which is such a foolproof way of learning in my
opinion. These show a range of different landscapes and locations, from a field of
sunflowers to Lake Garda, a mountainscape in Colorado to a Cornish beach. In each project
you will learn a variety of different techniques for painting in acrylics, getting to grips
with the nature of the beast. It is a fun way to learn, and this is a good book for anybody
who is perhaps not a total beginner (this word is not mentioned in the title, take note) but
has done a bit of painting and wants to learn how to use acrylics. |
The Book |
Search Press |
27 July 2009 |
Paperback |
1844481719 / 9781844481712 |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2009 |
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