"Ready To Paint" is a series of unique books designed for beginning artists who want to paint, but whose lack of drawing ability is holding them back.  Each book concentrates on a different popular subject for paintings and contains six reusable tracings plus full instructions on how to paint the pictures.  This title shows you how to paint various types of landscape using acrylics.

Seaside cliffs, mountains, a farm, hillside track, riverside and peaceful village are the six pullout tracings in this book.  This artist has certainly captured some stunning views that instantly made me wish to step into them—most landscape paintings do not have this effect, so I was instantly impressed.  I was further impressed to read that the artist used student-quality paints for all these pictures, proving once and for all what can be done with them.   Looking through the lists of items needed for taking up acrylic painting, I was also glad to see that comparatively few were listed.  Acrylics are their own creature, neither watercolors nor oils and, despite many books showing how you can make them into both, this book treats them as a unique entity.  Each of the five projects (you are on your own for the sixth, as usual) demonstrates some facet of acrylics and of painting a different type of landscape, and shows in as many as 39 stages what to do.  This is a wonderfully foolproof way of mastering painting a picture, and this was a good entry into what is already a strong series.

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