A new, up-to-date edition of the popular and comprehensive encyclopedia of acrylic painting by professional artist Hazel Harrison.
Ideal for artists of all skill levels, this exhaustive reference covers a multitude of topics concerning acrylics. The book is divided into two sections: the first provides step-by-step demonstrations that guide artists through a variety of techniques, from basic colour mixing through to creating special effects such as sgraffito and wax resist. The second part focuses on themes, illustrating how individual artists tackle a number of subjects, including landscapes, buildings, portraits, animals, still life and fantasy.
This resource provides a wealth of stimulating ideas to help artists both amateurs and veterans develop their own acrylic style.
176 page Paperback
Hazel Harrison is a practising artist who works in all painting media, often using her own photographs as a source of reference. She studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London. Hazel lives in a small village in the Peak District, and divides her time between painting and writing art instruction books.
Introducing acrylics | Techniques |
Blending | Broken Colour |
Brushwork | Building Up |
Charcoal and Acrylic | Collage |
Colour Mixing | Colour Grounds |
Dry Brush | Extruded Paint |
Glazing | Grounds |
Impasto | Ink and Acrylic |
Knife Painting | Line and Wash |
Masking | Mediums |
Monochrome Techniques | Monoprint |
Oil and Acrylic | Opaque Techniques |
Palette | Pastel and Acrylic |
Pencil and Acrylic | Scraping |
Scumbling | Sgraffito |
Spattering | Stencilling |
Supports | Texturing |
Transparent Techniques | Underdrawing |
Underpainting | Wax Resist |
Watercolour and Acrylic | Wet into Wet |
Themes | Landscape |
Buildings and townscapes | The figure |
Animals | Still life |
Abstraction and fantasy | Index and credits |