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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 15 July 2019
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781782217817
  • Carton Qty: 26
  • Size: 204x260 mm
  • Illustrations: 288
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $16.95
  • Series: Painting Step-by-Step
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Acrylic Painting Step-by-Step

$16.95

by Wendy Jelbert & Carole Massey


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Book Description

This comprehensive, go-to guide to acrylic painting provides in-depth teaching and expert advice from three successful acrylics artists. It includes a wide variety of styles and subjects, with 10 beautiful paintings explained using clear, step-by-step instructions and photos.

This is a practical and inspiring guide for acrylic artists of all levels of ability, from beginners who want to learn how to paint with acrylics to experienced artists looking for inspiration and ideas. Three well-known artists and authors share their expertise and enthusiasm for this exciting medium, starting with the materials and basic skills you need for painting with acrylics and moving on to more advanced techniques. Wendy Jelbert demonstrates colour mixing and the wonderful effects she creates in her stunning paintings, and David Hyde explores landscapes, from composing landscapes and choosing colours to creating depth and depicting the seasons. Carole Massey shares her love of flower painting and gives expert advice on mixing colours for flowers, using tone, drawing and composition. There are ten easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations with clear photographs and helpful instructions, and many inspirational paintings for readers to admire. 


Comprises material from the Leisure Arts series: 
Painting with Acrylics (9780855328405) 
Landscapes in Acrylics (9780855320234) 
Creative Acrylic Techniques (9780855328481) 
Flowers in Acrylics (9780855328535)

Table of Contents

Materials
Painting with acrylics
My palette
My sketchbook
Colour mixing
Playing with acrylics
Painting skies
Sunlit window step-by-step
Farmyard step-by-step
Landscapes in acrylics
Composition
Colours for landscape
Creating depth
Seasons
Distant mountains step by step
Still water step by step
Ancient tree step by step
Flowers in acrylics 
Flower colours
Flower shapes & drawing
Composition for flowers
Tone
Techniques for flowers
Primulas step by step
Rose arch step by step
Stargazer lilies step by step
Creative acrylic techniques
Creative techniques
Creating texture
Applying techniques
Lilac blooms step-by-step
Seascape step-by-step
Index

About the Author

About Wendy Jelbert

Wendy Jelbert is a teacher and award-winning professional artist who works in pastels, oils, acrylics, inks and watercolours. She is a member of the Society of Women Artists and the Society of Floral Painters, and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries throughout the UK. She has written over 40 books, has featured in 13 art DVDs and writes articles for Leisure Painter magazine. Wendy has taught for over 30 years at various locations, including WI Denman College near Oxford. Wendy lives in Hampshire, UK.

About Carole Massey

Carole Massey was born in Hertfordshire and studied at St. Alban's School of Art and Leicester School of Art & Design. After a career in advertising and graphic design, Carole returned to her first love, painting, full-time. She now teaches and runs weekend workshops, as well as organising painting holidays. Carole's work is exhibited widely, and she is particularly known for her celebrity portraits, mostly inspired by photographs. She uses a wide variety of media including acrylic, watercolour, pastel, pencil and monochrome.

Reviews

Craft Focus

Ideal for budding artists, Search Press is publishing Watercolour Painting Step-by-Step and Painting Step-by-Step. Both titles feature a variety of styles and subjects, as well as advice from well-known art world figures. Demonstrations, photographs and instructions are included. Each title retails at £9.99.


Leisure Painter

Wendy Jelbert, Caroline Massey and David Hyde have come together in this practical guide to acrylic painting. Wendy concentrates on colour mixing, Carole on flower painting and David on landscapes. The book opens with information about the materials you will need and the basic techniques to get to grips with. More advanced techniques are also explored and ten step-by-step demonstrations are included to start you on your way. The book includes materials from previously published titles from Search Press's Leisure Arts series. 


Crafter's Choice

Dec 09

Capture nature's most beautiful masterpieces on canvas with lessons from three experts in the art of acrylic painting. Wendy Jelbert starts with the basics sketching, playing with colors, creating texture, painting puffy clouds and brilliant sunsets...that kind of thing. Then it's all about lilac, lilies, roses and primulas as Carole Massey shows you how to create a garden's worth of beautiful posies with this surprisingly forgiving medium. Beyond that, David Hyde introduces you to the world of landscape painting, showing you how to paint ancient trees, still waters and majestic mountains. With 10 easy to follow demonstrations, this book is ideal for beginners and painters looking to expand their skills.


JeannieZelos.com

Nov 09

A great book for all acrylic enthusiasts, from complete beginners to the medium to more experienced artists. Its full of advice on materials techniques and helpful tips. Wendy gives some useful help on playing with acrylics and shows us just how versatile a medium the can be we can use them as watercolours, as oils and also use a variety of different techniques to create interesting and unusual effects. She shows us some of her paintings and explains which techniques she used to achieve the final effects and also gives us two detailed step by step demonstrations using many of the points she has already outlined. David continues with solutions to the popular comments that acrylics dry too quickly or are not subtle enough. He tells us just how great they are because they can be used in many different ways on a variety of surfaces. In his section of the book he covers Landscapes and gives us a brief but important overview of composition using two photographs of the same subject to use to create a compositionally pleasing painting. He further illustrates his comments by way of showing his own paintings and how the eye is lead into and round the painting by way of composition. He shows us the most useful colours for painting landscapes and gives hints on using Tone and Colour. This is followed by three detailed demonstrations, each accompanied by other of his works showing what he wants to achieve in each. Carol Massey then covers flowers. She shares her expertise giving advice on colours, drawing flowers and how to place flowers to create paintings that have an interesting composition. Carols advice covers how to use acrylics as watercolours and the benefits of this and how to use them impasto in knife paintings. Flower colours can be difficult to get right and she shows us her favourite colours and gives advice on how to mix and what colours to use to suit different types of flower. I found her advice on thinking of flower heads as simple geometric shapes very useful, simplifying what can seem a daunting task. She shares some of her own paintings and some thoughts about how and why she chose the methods she used. These are followed by three demonstrations using some of the techniques she has explained.

Wendy then introduces a final section on the many and varied techniques that can be used with acrylics to create interesting and realistic textural effects. This book brings together in one place some useful material from other books in the leisure arts series. For artists it gives a valuable insight into different ways of working with acrylics, showing how useful and versatile a medium they can be and how wide ranging their potential is.

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