Painting With Acrylics

by Roig, Gabriel Martin

• ISBN13: 9780764160486
• ISBN10: 0764160486
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc

Summary

Barron’sBeginner Art Guidesoffer basic instruction in a variety of techniques and media. As the series title states, these books are practical manuals for beginners in art, presenting short, easy-to-understand explanations of techniques and materials, exercises, supplemented with illustrative sketches, and general advice on drawing and painting. The last page of each manual focuses on a widely recognized artist who has produced well-known paintings or drawings in the medium or technique that is the book’s focus. Acrylics are modern, plastic-based pigments widely used today to render effects similar to artworks once done exclusively in gouache or tempera. Beginners are instructed in brushwork, in mixing and blending colors, and in using the bright, opaque acrylic pigments to their best effect. This manual’s final page briefly sketches the life and work of twentieth-century French painter Jean Dubuffet, who was a master of acrylic painting.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Contemporary Approach	p. 5
The Technique and Its Possibilities	p. 6
Presentation and Characteristics of the Medium	p. 8
Painting with Acrylic Washes	p. 10
Opaque Techniques	p. 12
Color in Acrylic Paints	p. 14
Working over Color Backgrounds	p. 16
Dragging the Color	p. 18
Transparent Techniques with Acrylics	p. 20
Practice Pages: Transparencies with Acrylic Mediums	p. 22
Practice Pages: Washes with Paint	p. 23
Alternative Methods of Painting with Acrylics	p. 24
Reserves, Sgrafitto and Sanding	p. 26
Practice Pages: Painting with Flat and Opaque Brushstrokes	p. 28
Practice Pages: Dry Brush	p. 29
Practical Exercises	p. 30
Still Life with Brushstrokes and Gradations	p. 32
Notebook on Effects: A Couple of Considerations	p. 35
Still Life with Chair and Hat	p. 36
Work by Students	p. 40
Urban Scene with Saturated Colors	p. 42
Notebook on Effects: Affinity and Rejection Between Color Contrasts	p. 45
Seascape Using the Anticerne Effect	p. 46
Notebook on Effects: Colors and Anticerne	p. 49
Urban Landscape with Spattering Effect	p. 50
Notebook on Effects: Spattering on the Support	p. 53
Working on a Textured Base	p. 54
Notebook on Effects: Effects with Texture	p. 57
Modern Techniques: Collage and Abstraction	p. 58
Notebook on Effects: Variations of a Theme	p. 61
Expressive Approach to the Human Figure	p. 62
Lessons from the Master: Jean Dubuffet	p. 64
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