Liberate Your Creativity With Acrylic Paints! Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic painting techniques and more. It features over 101 ways to break through the boundaries of conventional painting and re-define the creative potential of this all-purpose medium.
Every page provides insight on how to use acrylic paint in ways you never thought possible to create stunning visual effects and textures. Ten complete sections detail a range of empowering applications, including how to:
- Prepare and paint on virtually any surface
- Create textures of all kinds
- Work with transfers, collage, resists and mixed media
- Achieve innovative stenciling and line work
- Customize your paint to adjust thickness, transparency and drying time
- Simulate other mediums, such as oil, tempera or watercolor
- Create faux finishes, magical effects, sheens and more
To give you additional insight and inspiration, this book features a gallery of finished works by fellow painting revolutionaries that blend various acrylic techniques to create amazing effects. You'll also find practical advice that covers the basics and beyond--from selecting materials and cleaning your brushes to finishing and preserving your artwork. There's even a complete glossary of terms for fast and easy referencing. Pick up a brush and start your own acrylic revolution today!
Use the techniques in this book to free your creative spirit and create the paintings you've always dreamed of.
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Techniques That Will Expand Your Work
Just what i was looking for: various ways to expand the use of my materials and enhance my technique. Well laid out, easy to understand, stimulating and worth every penny. Every artist, no matter what level, can benefit from the Acrylic Revolution.
[Friday, January 02, 2009]
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Helpful book for beginners
This book has been very helpful to me as a novice painter. It is very easy to read and understand.
[Friday, January 02, 2009]
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Great read can't wait to try some of the techniques this weekend
Acrylic Revolution is a great book for abstract acrylic artists or mix media artists. About 1/4 of the techniques the author wrote about I was already familiar with, the other 3/4ths of this book was a pleasant surprise!
The book was a welcomed Christmas gift.
I have been painting abstracts for many years and agree with another reviewer that there are many properties of acrylic I was not familiar with and Reyner explains acrylics in such a way that the reader does not need a Master's Degree in science to understand.
The book format is clearly laid out and the reader is guided through the book from basic to more advanced methods of being creative with the paint and the various mediums. The spiral binding is a pretty good addition to the book.
The photos were easy to follow and the directions are pretty straight forward. I also went to Ms Reyner's website and was pleasantly surprised and intrigued by her art work. In some ways some of her work is similar to my artistic style I'm even tempted to sign up for a workshop if time allows.
[Tuesday, December 30, 2008]
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