By Colette Pitcher
Create lovely work with this enjoyable and simple advisor to acrylics!
continually desired to paint with acrylics? This easy-to-follow, complete colour advisor can provide specialist guide and easy workouts in acrylic portray thoughts and kinds. The step by step tasks allow you to perform your ability and stir your mind's eye — and provides you the root to create comparable tasks together with your personal topics and surfaces!
* Get your ft (and brushes) rainy — gather your fabrics, arrange your surfaces, and kind out ingredients and enhancers *
attempt uncomplicated acrylic strategies — paintings with brush strokes, keep watch over and skinny your paint, test with textures, and use stencils *
perform layout and composition rules — combine and use colour, stability components, make alterations, and pull your portray jointly *
Imitate numerous different types of kinds — use acrylic paint to imitate the consequences of watercolor and oil paints *
construct your repertoire — discover texture and measurement, paintings with glass, rocks, bricks, metalwork, and extra
Open the booklet and find:
* transparent step by step directions with illustrations *
various initiatives and kinds to fit all tastes *
quickly tips and strategies to start portray instantly *
plenty of colourful work to motivate creativity *
necessary tricks for bettering your drawing talents *
Full-scale tasks on the finish of so much chapters *
workouts to jump-start your inventive ardour
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Canvas paper Canvas paper comes in a variety of pad sizes, from small (21⁄2 x 31⁄2 inches) to large (16 x 20 inches). It has a specially coated surface, with a linen weave texture that accepts either oil or acrylic paint. Canvas paper is fairly inexpensive and easily framed, so I recommend buying a pad and using it for the projects for this book. (If you want to use something else, go right ahead. Make it your project. ) You can use canvas paper without any further preparation. Cut it to the size you want with scissors or a paper cutter.
Specialty mediums and finishes You can also find special mediums that aid in making paint adhere to different surfaces. In art supply shops and craft stores, you see mediums that enable you to paint fabric, glass, candles, metal, stones and rocks, and even soap. Put a drop or two of one of these mediums in acrylic paint, and the paint sticks to things that normally are too slick or nonabsorbent to paint on. Specialty mediums allow you to paint even waxy, glass, and washable items. ) Part II Exploring Tricks and Techniques T In this part .
I still have the first nice brush that I bought in college some 10, er, 30 years ago. But you have to really take care of them. In this section I dispense tips for getting the longest wear from your brush investment. Prepping a new brush Sometimes new brushes are shipped with a stiffener applied to them to protect the hairs until you use them. The stiffener is water soluble, so after you buy the brush and are ready to use it, just dip the hairs in clear water and roll them along on a water-safe surface to work the stiffener out of the hairs.