New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook: Materials, Techniques, and Contemporary Applications for Today's Artist
Rheni Tauchid’s bestselling The New Acrylics is an invaluable overview of modern acrylic paints. Her follow-up, New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook, is an in-depth, must-have resource for today’s acrylic artist. By guiding you to a higher level of adeptness and fluidity in the handling of your materials, it brings you closer to true mastery of the medium.\ Moving beyond a focus on the technical properties of acrylic paints, this new book opens your mind and eyes to the artistic possibilities...
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Rheni Tauchid’s bestselling The New Acrylics is an invaluable overview of modern acrylic paints. Her follow-up, New Acrylics Essential Sourcebook, is an in-depth, must-have resource for today’s acrylic artist. By guiding you to a higher level of adeptness and fluidity in the handling of your materials, it brings you closer to true mastery of the medium.Moving beyond a focus on the technical properties of acrylic paints, this new book opens your mind and eyes to the artistic possibilities that are uniquely suited to the medium. Once you become familiar with what acrylic paint is, you are ready to explore what it can become. Focusing on specific technical and application processes, this invaluable handbook demonstrates the many techniques used to produce the varied effects and painting styles that you can achieve with this most versatile of all painting media. Clearly and beautifully illustrated with photographs of the techniques and effects, as well as stunning work by the author and other leading acrylic artists, this book expands the breadth of your potential as an artist by giving you a deeper understanding of the essence of your medium.
Introduction Acrylics, the Vanguard of Art Materials 8Ch. 1 The Acrylic Idiom 12Ch. 2 The Paint 24Ch. 3 The Mediums 42Ch. 4 Essential Materials and Supplies 54Ch. 5 Shopping 68Ch. 6 Basic Techniques 80Ch. 7 Beyond the Basics 116Ch. 8 Conservation and Environmental Issues 156Afterword: The Future of Acrylics 178Glossary 182Bibliography 190Materials Resources 190Artist Information 191Index 192
