Revolutionize your work with acrylics!
Get ready for the creative ride of your life! Tradition is out,
experimentation is in with this cutting-edge how-to sampler of
techniques to use with acrylic, the world's most versatile medium.
Inside, you'll find inventive, non-traditional, downright inspirational
ways to paint with acrylic (pour, scrape, squirt, roll, layer and
excavate).
Workshop style instruction covers a wide range of approaches:
Watermedia Effects * Creating Texture Gels * Subtractive Techniques *
Collage and Acrylic Skins * Acrylic Transfers and the Printed Image *
Pours * Acrylic Encaustic * Metallic and Reflective Paints * Drawing
and Resists with Acrylic * Traditional Techniques with Acrylic *
Varnishing
- 18 step-by-step demonstrations illustrate a wide variety of
techniques including engraving acrylic, intarsia, pouring acrylic
objects and more.
- Studio visits profile 10 artists and their personal approaches to
painting with acrylics.
If you want to try something new...to put more play into your
artwork...to test-drive some of those enticing products you've been
eyeing...open this book and go for it. We're not talking just about
brush and canvas anymore...get out the hand-sander and Plexiglas, and
hold on tight (or better yet, let loose!), because this
adventure-in-acrylics will take you through a variety of possibilities.
Delicate transparent washes, lively impasto surfaces, radical
multi-dimensional effects... What will YOU think of next?
