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 |
Great book with lost of detail about acrylics which, as a beginner, was just what I was after. Libby Middleton (Whitchurch, United Kingdom) on 15 Mar 2021
