Rethinking Acrylic

Radical Solutions For Exploiting The World's Most Versatile Medium

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Pub Date 11 Dec 2018 | Archive Date 5 Dec 2018
F+W Media | North Light Books

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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 * Varnishing18 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?
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...

A Note From the Publisher

Patti Brady is the Working Artist Program Director for GOLDEN Artist Colors. She has developed curriculum for acrylic classes for artists and art educators. Patti has trained and manages more than 40 national and international artists for the GOLDEN Working Artist Program in the US, Canada, Korea, France, Austria, Spain, Mexico and the Netherlands. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited nationally and reviewed by the New York Times. She has exhibited nationwide.

Patti Brady is the Working Artist Program Director for GOLDEN Artist Colors. She has developed curriculum for acrylic classes for artists and art educators. Patti has trained and manages more than 40...


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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781440354137
PRICE £19.99 (GBP)
PAGES 160

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Featured Reviews

Amazing book. If you thought that acrylic was just an alternative to oils or watercolour, this book will show you how wrong you are.
The book starts off with a detailed overview of what acrylics is, and then this is followed with 11 chapters of various methods and combinations to create fabulous creations on paper, cloth, board and other materials.
Some of the combinations include gels, etching, collage, skins and pouring to name a few, each is accompanied by detailed photos and explanations, as well as some artist feedback and experience.
I found this book fascinating and am really raring to try some of the methods especially the etching. I think this is a great book for people who enjoy multi media, or those who would like to add a little bit of difference to their paintings.

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