Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 More Small Paintings Pick Up the Skills, Put on the Paint, Hang Up Your Art
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[United States of America]
Quarry Books
2020
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| Series: | 50 Small Paintings Ser
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Welcome
- Project gallery
- Chapter 1: Materials, tools, and techniques
- Acrylic paint
- Brushes
- Palettes
- Choosing a surface
- Transferring your drawing
- Color and value
- Basic design principles
- Displaying your work
- Chapter 2: Putting on the paint
- 1 Basic paint application: Door
- 2 Mixing tints and shades: Envelope
- 3 Opaque layering: T-shirt
- 4 Expanding your color palette: Child's chalk drawing
- 5 Mixing values of gray: Wax crayon
- 6 Getting to know your brushes: Pastry with sprinkles
- 47 Translucency and transparency: Butterscotch candy
- 48 Painting a backlit subject: Thistle
- 49 Creating a sense of scale: Canyon vista
- 50 Tonalism: Landscape with setting sun
- Glossary
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Credits
- 7 Cutting out a shape: Toy duck
- 8 Introduction to massing: Daisy
- 9 Textured layering: Red barn
- 10 Simple composition: Tabletop still life
- 11 Painting wood grain: Artist's palette
- 12 Distressing the surface: Brick wall
- 13 Simple reflections in water: Hot-air balloon
- 14 Rough and smooth surfaces: Egg on toast
- 15 Understanding fabric: Theater curtains
- 16 Color contrasts: Door and padlock
- 17 Intricate details: Butterfly
- Chapter 3: Light, shadow, and form
- 18 Introduction to cubes: Block of butter
- 19 Introduction to ellipses: Pineapple slice
- 20 Introduction to spheres: Pincushion
- 21 Introduction to cones: Holiday hat
- 22 Light and shade on a cube: Multi-layered sandwich
- 23 Reflective surfaces: Pawn
- 24 Introduction to cylinders: Stack of pancakes
- 25 Creating a unified color scheme: Cactus
- 26 Multiple spheres: Toy panda
- 27 Hatching brushstrokes: Bee
- 28 Understanding color values: Paper bag puppet
- 29 Shadow colors: Building block giraffe
- 30 Combining cones and spheres: Ice-cream cone
- 31 Complex ellipses: Button flower
- 32 Multiple geometric shapes: Toy rocket
- 33 Reflected light: Takeout carton
- 34 Multiple textures: Paintbrush
- 35 Complex cylinder: Pretzel
- Chapter 4: Interpretive approaches
- 36 Random edges: Cumulus clouds
- 37 Expressive brushstrokes: Banana peel
- 38 Luminous light effects: City at sunset
- 39 Luminous glazes: Illuminated lightbulb
- 40 Creating clean, fresh whites: Swan
- 41 Simplifying the subject: Flamingo
- 42 Dramatic contrast: Light on road
- 43 Broken brushstrokes: Tree
- 44 Gradation and depth: Misty mountains
- 45 Mixing colors using glazes: Lighthouse
- 46 Complementary colors: Lemon branch