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How To Paint Acrylics
How to Paint Series

by Peter Jay

     

Acrylics are surely one of the most versatile types of paint.  You can use them like watercolors, or like oils; you can even paint on fabric with them (which is how I use mine).  If art is more your bag than craft, read on...

Despite the author having worked in the textile industry, there is no mention of fabric painting in here.  There is however plenty of information about how to use acrylics to paint pictures, and make the most of their unique characteristics.  Using primed hardboard and acrylic gesso as a base (it tells you how to do this) here are several lovely examples to work through, during the process of which you can get to grips with the nature of the beast.  Other topics mentioned in chapters include composing your picture, working out of doors, working from photographs, sketching and perspective.  Coming through all this is the author’s love of the countryside, both in his former home of Sussex and now Somerset.  The examples include landscapes and seascapes which show the beauty of these areas, and the stimulating though brief text is filled with descriptions of the author’s sketching trips near his home.  Accessible and inspiring.

If you cannot find a good range of acrylics and other art materials locally try SearchPress.com for a list of suppliers.

You may also enjoy other new titles in the How To Paint series, including ones about using oils and watercolors.

The Book

Search Press
December 2008 (May 2009 in US)
Paperback
1844482952 / 9781844482955
How-To Books / Art
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2009
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