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Quick & Clever Acrylics by Mike Sanders
Quick and Clever Acrylics is a comprehensive introduction to painting with acrylics presented in the "quick and clever" approach, making it great for newcomers to the medium. This book explores the full potential of acrylics, which are used by a wide variety of artists for painting on paper, canvas, hardware, etc. Each chapter explores painting a popular subject - starting with technique-focused exercises before moving into a step-by-step demonstrated painting. The focus of the steps is to get top results with acrylics in a short amount of time making acrylics easy, fun and fast. |
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The Acrylics Book by Barclay Sheaks
 UNRIVALED IN SCOPE, THIS ENCYCLOPEDIC REFERENCE on the most versatile of all painting mediums is an excellent tool to help both beginning and seasoned artists produce their best work in acrylics With its great flexibility, acrylic paint can mimic the appearance of oils, tempera, and watercolors in unique ways, each method pictured in a separate step-by-step demonstration. The author also examines the use of acrylics with airbrush, sculptural, and printing techniques-even three-dimensional relief painting and collagraphy printing methods are included-and how several of these different creative processes can be integrated successfully in one composition with ink, pencil, charcoal, and pastel. Inspiring examples of representational and abstract subjects are depicted throughout, and a complete survey of all the latest acrylic materials covers the best paint brands, painting mediums, supports, varnishes, brushes, knives, and palettes. Barclay Sheaks, whose works are in numerous museum, university, and corporate collections, is associate professor at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk. He maintains studios on Chesapeake Bay and in Newport News, Virginia. A terrific reference book for every artist's library. 176 pages paperback with 352 color illustrations. |
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Complete Guide to the New Generation of Acrylic Paints by Rheni Tauchid
 The acrylics of today have grown into the most adaptable art material of the modern age. Focusing on a popular art medium that has been around for over 50 years, The New Acrylics illustrates how artists can create lush textures, color, and luster with the modern acrylics readily available in any art supply store. These are nontoxic, environmentally sound, and exist in the most dazzling array of chemical formats-from the most fluid to the highly viscous. Not only do artists paint with acrylics these days, they can create rich metallic effects, or even 3-dimensional sculptures. Traditional technique based books on acrylics cover traditional methods of painting. However, The New Acrylics is geared toward more non-conventional ways in which to manipulate modern-day acrylics, and demonstrates new applications such as glazing, textured effects, soft sculpture effects, or staining, thus reinventing the old way of handling acrylics, and revealing a fabulous new artistic medium. The underlying theme of this dazzling and sophisticated book is to encourage artists to interpret and handle acrylic paints in a vibrant, fresh, and above all, individualistic style. For beginning to professional artists, fine artisans, crafters, and sculptors. Acrylic paints make up more than 60% of fine art paint sales in North America. One of the few acrylics books devoted solely to the revolutionary advances in acrylic paints and mediums. Rheni Tauchid is a member of the product development team at Tri-Art Manufacturing, Inc., a manufacturer of acrylic paints and mediums. 160 pages paperback with 250 color illustrations. |
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Acrylic Painter's Book of Styles & Techniques Edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf
 Acrylics are famous for their versatility. They can be used straight from the tube to look like oil paints. They can be thinned with water or painting medium and used like traditional watercolors. Or they can be used with techniques unique to acrylics. On these pages, seven top acrylic painters illustrate the versatility and creative excitement of acrylics. In 28 step-by-step demonstrations they show new techniques for mastering acrylic's many faces-from the look of highly controlled transparent watercolor, to abstract expressionism, and everything in between. This book is a creative testament to the growing popularity of this medium and the perfect invitation for any artist who wants to explore it further. Rachel Rubin Wolf is a freelance writer and editor. She is the project editor for the Splash watercolor series, as well as North Light's Basic Techniques and Keys to Painting series. 128 pages paperback with 215 color illustrations. |
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Acrylic Painting Techniques by Stephen Quiller
 Acrylic Painting Techniques shows you the range of what you can get with acrylic paints. Stephen Quiller gives good advice on paints and materials - brushes, palettes, and painting surfaces for the acrylic painter. There's also a color wheel that he has created specifically for acrylics. 144 pages paperback. |
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Acrylic Revolution by Nancy Reyner
 Acrylic Revolution will show you everything you need to know to be successful in your acrylic painting projects. With over 101 of the most popular, interesting, and indispensable tricks for working with acrylic - each with its own step-by-step demonstration - there is literally page after page of acrylic instruction and inspiration for everyone from artists, to crafters, to weekend enthusiasts, to students of all levels. A gallery of finished art at the back of the book will show readers how to combine different tricks to use in your artwork offering you real-life applications for acrylic techniques.
128 pages hardcover with concealed spiral with 300 color illustrations. |
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Acrylics: The Watercolor Alternative by Charles Harrington
 This book teaches readers how to capture the look of watercolor with the ease of acrylics. Step-by-step demos and technique exercises, approximately 25 in total, show readers how to use acrylics to capture the look of watercolor. The author also illustrates transparent, translucent and opaque painting techniques so your water appears more realistic. He presents valuable lessons on basics of& composition, preliminary sketches and more - all designed to give you that extra edge in making the best painting from start to finish. 128 pages hardcover with 20 b&w and 200 color illustrations. |
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Rethinking Acrylic - Radical Solutions for Exploiting the World's Most Versatile Medium by Patti Brady
 Acrylic can mimic oil paint, watercolor, gouache and encaustic; it can be applied in subtle transparent washes, or troweled as a heavy thick impasto; it can be as transparent as glass or as dense and black as tar. Because of its ever-changing state, Patti Brady is covering the most popular techniques for acrylic, making them accessible to the contemporary artist through a variety of mini-demonstrations followed by full demonstrations that show how to transform those techniques into finished paintings. 160 pages hardcover with concealed spiral with 50 b&w and 250 color illustrations. |
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First Steps; Painting Acrylics by Vicki Lord
 In this book you'll find everything you need to get off to a strong start. Easy-to-follow exercises teach you a variety of application techniques and the step-by-step demos help you apply what you've learned. You'll get plenty of specific instructions on topics from color suggestions, what size brush to use, even which direction to make your stroke. 128 pages paperback with 96 color illustrations. |
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Discover Joy Of Acrylic Painting by Jacqueline Penney
 A great introduction to a medium whose popularity is soaring. Presents gorgeous artwork mixed with friendly instruction and includes 13 mini-demos.
Acrylic is a growing medium, yet there are very few good instruction books on the market. The two most appealing things about Jacqueline Penney's acrylic paintings are first, their subject matter, which transports you of a wonderful, relaxing holiday spot, and second, the ease with which she paints. These two features are emphasized throughout this new book. The techniques, described in both the body of instruction and special sidebars, highlight the shortcuts Jacqueline has developed to get great results. Aimed at watercolorists who might want to try acrylics as well as beginning to intermediate acrylic painters, Jacqueline's book offers ideas and instruction in a popular painting style while encouraging artists to have fun while they create. Jacqueline Penney is an artist, popular teacher and author of Painting Greeting Cards in Watercolor. Sixty-nine of her paintings have been published and distributed in the world market. 128 pages hardcover with 210 color illustrations. |
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