Acrylic Workbook: A Complete Course in Ten Lessons

Presents a guide to the versatile, popular medium of acrylic for beginners and improvers, and introduces the basic materials and techniques, and leads the reader through a series of challenging lessons. It covers a diverse and popular range of themes, from still lifes and landscapes through to people and collages.|This essential, complete guide to the versatile, popular medium of acrylic for beginners and improvers introduces the basic materials and techniques, and leads the reader through a series of progressively challenging lessons. The learning objectives of the 10 step-by-step lessons are clearly set out to show the skills readers will achieve, and how they can use the techniques in subsequent paintings. It covers a diverse and popular range of themes, from still lifes and landscapes through to people and collages.

Publisher: David & C.

Published: United Kingdom, 1 March 2006

Format: Spiral Bound, 128 pages

Age Range: 15+

Other Information: Illustrations, unspecified

Dimensions: 19.8 x 0.8 x 27.9 centimeters (0.73 kg)

Writer: Rodwell, Jenny

Table of ContentsIntroduction; Materials and Equipment; Lesson 1: Colour; Lesson 2: Getting Started; Lesson 3: Creating Textures; Lesson 4: Washes; Lesson 5: Creating Form; Lesson 6: Still Life; Lesson 7: Effects with Paint; Lesson 8: Landscape; Lesson 9: People; Lesson 10: Collage; Glossary; Index.

About the AuthorJenny Rodwell studied at St Martin's School of Art, the Royal Academy and the School of Visual Arts, New York. She regularly contributes to the leisure painting press, illustrates children's books and works on animated films. Jenny lives near Sheffield.