Acrylic Painting For Dummies

✍ Scribed by Pitcher, Colette

• Publisher: Wiley Pub
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Series: For dummies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Create gorgeous paintings with this fun and easy guide to acrylics!. Always wanted to paint with acrylics? This easy-to-follow, full color guide gives you expert instruction and simple exercises in acrylic painting techniques and styles. The step-by-step projects let you practice your skill and stir your imagination -- and give you the foundation to create similar projects with your own subjects and surfaces!.: Get your feet (and brushes) wet -- assemble your materials, prepare your surfaces, and sort out additives and enhancers;. Try out basic acrylic techniques -- work with brush strokes, contr.;Acrylic Painting FOR Dummies®; About the Author; Dedication; Author's Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Acquainted with Acrylics; Chapter 1: Acrylics Are Awesome!; What's So Awesome About Acrylic Paint?; Nurturing and Growing the Acrylic Artist in You; Project: Painting Your Sketchbook; Chapter 2: Setting Up Supplies: Brushes, Surfaces, and Palettes; Brushing Up on Brushes.

✦ Table of Contents

Acrylic Painting FOR Dummies®
About the Author
Dedication
Author's Acknowledgments
Contents at a Glance
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
What You're Not to Read
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: Getting Acquainted with Acrylics
Chapter 1: Acrylics Are Awesome!
What's So Awesome About Acrylic Paint?
Nurturing and Growing the Acrylic Artist in You
Project: Painting Your Sketchbook
Chapter 2: Setting Up Supplies: Brushes, Surfaces, and Palettes
Brushing Up on Brushes. Maintaining Your BrushesPicking and Prepping Common Paint Surfaces
Thinking Outside the Canvas: Alternate Acrylic Painting Surfaces
Purchasing Palettes and Other Handy Stuff
Chapter 3: All About Paints and Mediums
Getting to Know the Different Properties of Acrylic Paints
Different Types of Acrylic Paint
Additives, Mediums, Gels, and Pastes
Part II: Exploring Tricks and Techniques
Chapter 4: Basic Painting and Finishing Techniques
Setting Up Your Palette and Supplies
Getting a Grip on Your Brushes: Practicing Various Brush Strokes
The Best Basic Painting Techniques. Finishing with FinesseProject: 30-Minute Artist Trading Card
Chapter 5: Building Your Repertoire with Quick Tricks and Techniques
Ready, Set, Experiment
Adding Stuff to Your Paint
Thinking Outside the Brush
Dripping, Spraying, and Spattering
Project: Combination Technique Abstract
Chapter 6: Drawn to Paint --
Even if Your Drawing Skills Need Work
Making Thumbnail Sketches
Enlarging Sketches
Tracing Your Way to a Great Painting Sketch
Getting Your Drawing onto the Painting Surface
Blending with Paint
Project: Create a Still Life
Part III: Finding the Fun in Fundamentals. Chapter 7: Taking a Quick Color TourLooking at Popular Colors
Deciphering Paint Descriptions
Working the Color Wheel
Three Color Exercises
A Few More Color Plans
Chapter 8: Design of the Times: Design Elements and Principles
Elements of Design
The Principle of Balance
The Principle of Contrast
The Principles of Repetition, Alternation, and Variation
The Principle of Direction
The Principles of Emphasis and Subordination
Chapter 9: Putting the Pieces Together: Composition
First Things First: Intention and Placement
More Composition Guidelines. Check Yourself: Analyzing and Revamping Your CompositionPart IV: Acrylic's Versatile Styles
Chapter 10: Letting It Flow: Creating a Watercolor-like Landscape
Born to Run: Thinning Acrylic to be Like Watercolor
The Sky's the Limit: Painting Translucent Skies
Getting Edgy: Defining the Edges of Landscape Objects
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Layering Paint for Endless Possibilities
Project: Putting Together a Watercolor-like Landscape
Chapter 11: Laying It On Thick: Painting Like the Oil Masters
Getting Ready to Create an "Oil" Masterpiece
Trying Oil-Inspired Techniques.

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