The Beginner's Guide Acrylics: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials

by Angela Gair

A guide to choosing paints, paper and equipment, and to using numerous different acrylic techniques, including dilute colour impasto, glazing, knife painting and splattering. It also contains an overview of the history of drawing and a gallery of contemporary designs. Acrylic paint dries quickly, forms a tough, flexible film that's insoluble, and won't rot, discolor, or crack. Get tips from the experts, and techniques for rapidly building up layers of color. Try impasto and masking, paint with a knife, and antique. Full-color illustrations on each page, and a painters' gallery, help you do it all.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1997

About the author

Angela Gair is a painter and writer. She studied fine art at Sheffield Polytechnic in England and then spent several years painting in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland. An art teacher as well as a practising artist, she has also contributed to art education magazines and has written several instructional art books.