A fun and accessible guide to acrylics, featuring step-by-step
exercises and advice on technique to help your paintings flourish.
Leading painter, teacher and writer Soraya French has distilled her art
teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short
period of time - in just one afternoon you can start acrylic painting.
Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us, and
painting with today's acrylics paints has never been easier or more
accessible. Acrylics are becoming increasingly popular, especially for
beginners because of their versatility and strength of colour. Acrylics
can be used thickly like oils, but they dry much more quickly, or they
can be watered down to look like watercolour.
The author, known for her own vibrant and colourful acrylic paintings,
covers equipment and the best colours to buy and shows the different
ways of using acrylic to create a range of effects with simple
instruction and easy-to-follow exercises. She shows how to use acrylics
to paint a range of subjects: flowers and trees, landscapes, cityscapes
and people.