Painting with acrylics

Martín i Roig, Gabriel 1970- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0764160486
ISBN: 9780764160486
Physical Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
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Publisher: Hauppauge, NY : Barrons Educational Series, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Translation of: Guía para principiantes.

Originally published 2006 by Paramon under title: Guía para principiantes: pintura al acrilico.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: a contemporary approach -- The technique and its possibilities -- Presentation and characteristics of the medium -- Painting with acrylic washes -- Opaque techniques -- Color in acrylic paints -- working over color backgrounds -- Dragging the color -- Transparent techniques with acrylics -- Practice pages: transparencies with acrylic mediums -- practice pages: washes with paint -- Alternative methods of painting with acrylics -- Reserves, sgrafitto and sanding -- Practice pages: painting with flat and opaque brushstrokes -- Practice pages: dry brush -- Practical exercises -- Still life with brushstrokes and gradations -- Notebook on effects: a couple of considerations -- Still life with chair and hat -- Work by students -- Urban scene with saturated colors -- Notebook on effects: affinity and rejection between color contrasts -- Seascape using the anticerne effect -- Notebook on effects: colors and anticerne -- Urban landscape with spattering effect -- Notebook on effects: spattering on the support -- Working on a textured base -- Notebook on effects: effects with texture -- Modern techniques: collage and abstraction -- Notebook on effects: variations of a theme -- Expressive approach to the human figure -- Lessons from the master: Jean Dubuffet.