By Nancy Reyner
Liberate Your Creativity with Acrylic Paints!
Acrylic Revolution is your crucial, all-in-one consultant for acrylic portray suggestions and extra. It beneficial properties over a hundred and one how you can holiday during the obstacles of traditional portray and re-define the inventive capability of this all-purpose medium.
Every web page offers perception on easy methods to use acrylic paint in methods you by no means suggestion attainable to create gorgeous visible results and textures. Ten entire sections element quite a number empowering functions, together with how to:
- Prepare and paint on nearly any surface
- Create textures of all kinds
- Work with transfers, college, resists and combined media
- Achieve leading edge stenciling and line work
- Customize your paint to regulate thickness, transparency and drying time
- Simulate different mediums, equivalent to oil, tempera or watercolor
- Create fake finishes, magical results, sheens and more
To offer you extra perception and idea, this e-book contains a gallery of complete works by way of fellow portray revolutionaries that mix quite a few acrylic options to create notable results. you will additionally locate sensible suggestion that covers the fundamentals and beyond—from opting for fabrics and cleansing your brushes to completing and conserving your art. there is even a whole thesaurus of phrases for speedy and straightforward referencing.
Pick up a broom and begin your personal acrylic revolution at the present time! Use the innovations during this e-book to unfastened your artistic spirit and create the work you've got regularly dreamed of.
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Acrylic Revolution. New Tricks and Techniques for Working with the World's Most Versatile Medium
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Gently drag a comb through the wet paste from one end of the support to the other. For a support larger than the width of the comb, drag it a few times in rows. After each drag, wipe off the excess paste before continuing. Repeat with vertical lines, dragging the comb for a crosshatched effect. Use a very light touch when you change directions or you will eliminate the horizontal lines. Let the surface dry. This painting began with a textured surface made with combs and gels. Iridescent copper was used as an underpainting beneath overlays of interference glazes and a collage of torn tissue and vellum papers.
You can “spot” sand by another layer with red and beige, then sanded seems difficult to sand, use a coarser grit. Don’t sanding only the recently applied colors, or sand that as well. let the sandpaper get dry. Keep using the spray the entire surface. bottle liberally and make sure there is always a good amount of water between the sandpaper and the painted surface. Sand about 60% of the area, then wipe the surface down with clean, dry paper towels. The Nitty Gritty of Sandpaper I usually use a 220 grit sandpaper.
Finished cracked and painted surface 43 29 Primed painting support Micaceous Iron Oxide Iridescent Paint Palette knife Oil pastels A P P LY M I C A C E O U S I R O N O X I D E D R AW O V E R T H E S U R FA C E Spread the Micaceous Iron Oxide onto your support using the palette knife. Spread it to fully cover the support’s primed surface. Let it dry approximately 8 hours or overnight. F I N I S H T H E D R AW I N G Complete the oil pastel drawing. Leave some areas uncovered so the micaceous iron oxide with colored pencils Instead of the oil pastels, you can use acrylic paint, chalk pastel, colored pencil, crayon, wax or oil paint.