Synopses & Reviews
(back cover)
Barron's Beginner Art Guides instruct you in techniques for mastering a variety of art media and genres. Painting with Acrylics will show you how to explore the technical possibilities of acrylic pigments and use this gratifying medium to produce imaginative and original paintings. You'll also find several projects to complete, including landscape and still life paintings. Presented in order of increased difficulty, each project is supplemented with advice and practical suggestions to help you achieve professional-looking results. Painting with Acrylics is a practical guide that features short, easy-to-understand explanations, supplemented with exercises, illustrative sketches, general advice, and notes on using acrylic pigments to achieve a wide range of visual effects.
BEGINNER ART GUIDES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
Color and Creativity
Drawing with Charcoal, Chalk, and Sanguine Crayon
Painting with Acrylics
Painting with Oil
Painting with Watercolor
Painting Landscapes
Painting Still Lifes
Review
"Half of this excellent overview for the beginner is devoted to the many techniques possible with acrylics, the other, filled with practical exercises. An inexpensive introduction recommended for all public libraries."
Library Journal, November 15, 2007
Synopsis
Barron's Beginner Art Guides offer basic instruction in a variety of techniques and media. As the series title states, these books are practical manuals for beginners in art, presenting short, easy-to-understand explanations of techniques and materials, exercises, supplemented with illustrative sketches, and general advice on drawing and painting. The last page of each manual focuses on a widely recognized artist who has produced well-known paintings or drawings in the medium or technique that is the book's focus. Acrylics are modern, plastic-based pigments widely used today to render effects similar to artworks once done exclusively in gouache or tempera. Beginners are instructed in brushwork, in mixing and blending colors, and in using the bright, opaque acrylic pigments to their best effect. This manual's final page briefly sketches the life and work of twentieth-century French painter Jean Dubuffet, who was a master of acrylic painting.
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'Toddlers will giggle when the cover\'s animal face wiggles! It\'s Little Bunny, whose ears wiggle when he\'s happily digging up carrots. Bunny is one of four sturdy Wiggle-Waggles board books. Each shows a cheerful animal\'s face on its front cover, which is constructed of layered board sections. The faces present a 3D effect, but the feature that makes them really unique is the way that they wiggle. Toddlers will also like to touch the furry or downy patches on Bunny\'s, Kitten\'s, Duck\'s and Puppy\'s faces. The humorous stories told inside the books are in verse, and the illustrations are every bit as bright and colorful as the faces on the covers.'